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Lake Effect Snow Warning 1, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this lake effect snow warning at Jan 1, 2012, 4:44 AM EST for 5 counties in New York. It took effect at Jan 2, 2012, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for 26 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 1, 2012, 4:44 AM EST (09:44 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 2, 2012, 7:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 3, 2012, 8:44 AM EST
- In force
- 26 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
Counties Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:44 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 00:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 162 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
- 724 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake effect snow 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 lake effect snow warning went out at Jan 1, 4:04 AM EST, 40 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 1, 4:04 AM EST, 40 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 1, 4:18 AM EST | Wind Advisory | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins and 1 more | 20 hr |
| Jan 1, 4:35 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Watch | BGM | Madison, Oneida, Onondaga | 24 hr |
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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.