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Special Weather Statement, NWS Binghamton, NY

March 19, 2012Yates County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this special weather statement at Mar 19, 2012, 4:01 PM EDT for Yates County, New York. It was in force for 59 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: Mar 19, 2012, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired: Mar 19, 2012, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

County Yates County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:03 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 117 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: 195 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -52 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 830 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 19, 2:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Onondaga	57 min
Mar 19, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Onondaga	59 min
Mar 19, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Onondaga	57 min
Mar 19, 4:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga	60 min
Mar 19, 6:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	28 min
Mar 19, 6:40 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	3 hr
Mar 19, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Wayne, Wyoming	37 min
Mar 19, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Lackawanna, Pike, Wyoming	58 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2012 Every special weather statement 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.