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Freeze Warning 12, NWS Binghamton, NY

October 8, 2012Chemung County, Steuben County, New York; Bradford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this freeze warning at Oct 8, 2012, 2:41 PM EDT for Chemung County, Steuben County, New York; Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Oct 8, 2012, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 7 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: Oct 8, 2012, 2:41 PM EDT (18:41 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 8, 2012, 11:00 PM EDT
Expired: Oct 9, 2012, 6:17 AM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Chemung County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Bradford County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:44 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 114 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Oct 8, 1:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 8, 1:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 7, 10:40 PM EDT	Freeze Warning	BGM	Steuben	9 hr
Oct 8, 4:14 AM EDT	Frost Advisory	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison and 8 more	26 hr
Oct 8, 4:14 AM EDT	Freeze Watch	BGM	Chemung, Steuben	10 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in New York, 2012 Freeze Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2012 Every 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.