Alert archive / New York / Freeze Warnings in 2012
Freeze Warning 6, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this freeze warning at Apr 12, 2012, 3:47 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York; Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Apr 13, 2012, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 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 12, 2012, 3:47 AM EDT (07:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 13, 2012, 12:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 13, 2012, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
Counties Cayuga County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Yates County, NY, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:49 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 143 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 148 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in New York, 2012Freeze 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.