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Winter Storm Warning 3, NWS Binghamton, NY

January 27, 200916 counties in New York; Bradford County, Susquehanna County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this winter storm warning at Jan 27, 2009, 11:56 AM EST for 16 counties in New York; Bradford County, Susquehanna County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jan 27, 2009, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 23 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
Jan 27, 2009, 11:56 AM EST (16:56 UTC)
In effect from
Jan 27, 2009, 10:00 PM EST
Expired
Jan 28, 2009, 9:06 PM EST
In force
23 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Broome County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Yates County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 191 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2009-01-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2009-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -22 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156175194Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
109 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 27, 11:56 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryBGMSullivan32 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in New York, 2009Winter Storm Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2009Every winter storm warning in 2009

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.