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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 4, NWS Binghamton, NY

January 30, 2012Madison County, Oneida County, Onondaga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this lake effect snow advisory at Jan 30, 2012, 4:09 AM EST for Madison County, Oneida County, Onondaga County, New York. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 30, 2012, 4:09 AM EST (09:09 UTC)
Expired
Jan 30, 2012, 1:00 PM EST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:12 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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 239 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2012-01-30Temperature 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2012-01-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
544 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
175 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 29, 7:26 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMSteuben64 min
Jan 29, 8:20 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMChemung, Schuyler, Seneca, Yates40 min
Jan 29, 8:56 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMCayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Onondaga, Seneca, Tioga and 1 more34 min
Jan 29, 10:00 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMMadison, Oneida, Onondaga60 min
Jan 30, 5:29 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMMadison61 min
Jan 30, 6:35 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMMadison85 min

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Advisories in New York, 2012Every lake effect snow advisory 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.