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Freeze Warning 10, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this freeze warning at Apr 28, 2012, 2:55 PM EDT for Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Pike County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Apr 28, 2012, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 11 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
- Apr 28, 2012, 2:55 PM EDT (18:55 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 28, 2012, 11:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 29, 2012, 9:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
Counties Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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
- 1370 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 99 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this freeze 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 freeze warning went out at Apr 27, 7:49 PM EDT, 19 hours 6 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 27, 7:49 PM EDT, 19 hours 6 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:54 AM EDT | Freeze Watch | BGM | Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 11 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 28, 2:55 PM EDT | Hard Freeze Warning | BGM | Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 11 more | 19 hr |
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2012Every freeze warning in 2012
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.