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Winter Storm Warning 9, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this winter storm warning at Dec 10, 2008, 3:42 PM EST for 13 counties in New York; 7 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Dec 11, 2008, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for 28 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 10, 2008, 3:42 PM EST (20:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 11, 2008, 6:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Dec 12, 2008, 10:00 AM EST
- In force
- 28 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
Counties Broome County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 286 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 57 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 346 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 335 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this winter storm warning went out at Dec 10, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 10, 2:30 PM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 10, 3:42 PM EST | Winter Storm Watch | BGM | Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga and 5 more | 12 hr |
Nearby
Winter Storm Warnings in New York, 2008Winter Storm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2008Every winter storm warning in 2008
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.