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Special Weather Statement, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this special weather statement at Jan 19, 2012, 8:49 PM EST for Schuyler County, Steuben County, Tompkins County, New York. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 19, 2012, 8:49 PM EST (01:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 19, 2012, 9:45 PM EST
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
Counties Schuyler County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Tompkins County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:51 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, 1.8 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 111 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jan 19, 7:30 PM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 19, 7:30 PM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 19, 3:12 PM EST, 5 hours 37 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 312 PM EST THU JAN 19 2012 NYZ009-202015- NORTHERN ONEIDA- 312 PM EST THU JAN 19 2012 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EST FRIDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NYZ018-036-037-202015- ONONDAGA-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA- 312 PM EST THU JAN 19 2012 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EST FRIDAY... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NYZ015>017-023-025-044>046-202015- YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-SCHUYLER-TOMPKINS-CORTLAND-CHENANGO- OTSEGO- 312 PM EST THU JAN 19 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NYZ022-024-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043-044-047-048-072-202015- STEUBEN-CHEMUNG-TIOGA-BROOME-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-BRADFORD-SUSQUEHANNA- NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE- 312 PM EST THU JAN 19 2012 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. A STORM SYSTEM SLIDING THROUGH THE MID ATLANTIC WILL BRING SNOW TO THE REGION FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY AFTERNOON. EARLY INDICATIONS CALL FOR 2 TO 4 INCHES OF SNOW OVER NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND THE LOWER CATSKILLS, WITH 1 TO 3 INCHES TO THE NORTH. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. PADAVONA
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jan 19, 7:26 PM EST, 1 hour 23 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
726 PM EST THU JAN 19 2012
NYZ015-016-022-200130-
SENECA NY-STEUBEN NY-YATES NY-
726 PM EST THU JAN 19 2012
...A SNOW SQUALL WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN STEUBEN...WEST CENTRAL
SENECA AND YATES COUNTIES...
* AT 719 PM EST...A SNOW SQUALL WAS ALONG A LINE FROM 11 MILES
NORTH OF CANANDAIGUA TO 12 MILES SOUTH OF GENESEO MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 15 MPH.
WIND GUSTS TO 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS SNOW SQUALL. THE SNOW
AND BLOWING SNOW WILL RAPIDLY DROP VISIBILITIES TO LESS THAN A
QUARTER OF A MILE
THIS SNOW SQUALL WILL BE NEAR...
WAYLAND AND PERKINSVILLE AT 750 PM...
VINE VALLEY AND SOUTH DANSVILLE AT 800 PM...
ATLANTA AT 805 PM...
MIDDLESEX AT 810 PM...
BORDER CITY AND COHOCTON AT 815 PM...
POTTER AND ITALY AT 820 PM...
ITALY HILL AND BENTON AT 825 PM...
BELLONA STN AND HORNELL AT 830 PM...
USE EXTREME CAUTION IF YOU MUST TRAVEL INTO OR THROUGH THIS
POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS SNOW SQUALL. CONSIDER DELAYING TRAVEL UNTIL THE
SQUALL PASSES YOUR LOCATION.
LAT...LON 4253 7773 4254 7767 4259 7766 4258 7737
4271 7736 4277 7731 4277 7699 4287 7699
4293 7696 4277 7681 4230 7745 4217 7775
EMGSpecial weather statement, Jan 19, 8:49 PM EST, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 19, 7:26 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Seneca, Yates | 64 min |
| Jan 19, 9:33 PM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BGM | Oneida | 11 hr |
| Jan 19, 9:56 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Tioga and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 20, 5:19 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BGM | Broome, Chemung, Delaware, Steuben, Sullivan, Tioga | 6 hr |
| Jan 20, 11:44 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BGM | Broome, Chemung, Delaware, Steuben, Sullivan, Tioga | 25 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.