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Special Weather Statement, NWS Binghamton, NY

October 19, 2012Oneida County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this special weather statement at Oct 19, 2012, 7:30 PM EDT for Oneida County, New York. It was in force for 30 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: Oct 19, 2012, 7:30 PM EDT (23:30 UTC)
Expired: Oct 19, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 30 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

County Oneida County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.5 hours before the alert went out and 330 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: 45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -46 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 511 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 229 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 379 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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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 Oct 19, 3:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 19, 3:49 PM EDT, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 19, 3:15 PM EDT, 4 hours 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Oct 19, 5:30 PM EDT, 2 hours before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
530 PM EDT FRI OCT 19 2012

PAZ039-192215-
SUSQUEHANNA PA-
530 PM EDT FRI OCT 19 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY...

* AT 528 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...STRONG
  GUSTY WINDS AROUND 40 MPH...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  THIS STORM WAS
  LOCATED NEAR HOP BOTTOM...AND MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

* THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HARFORD AND SOUTH MONTROSE AT 540 PM EDT...
  ALFORD AND GIBSON AT 545 PM EDT...
  MONTROSE AT 550 PM EDT...
  JACKSON AT 555 PM EDT...
  NEW MILFORD AND LAKEVIEW AT 600 PM EDT...
  LAKESIDE AT 605 PM EDT...
  HALLSTEAD AND HICKORY GROVE AT 615 PM EDT...

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.

LAT...LON 4166 7589 4200 7587 4200 7554 4164 7565
      4164 7573

/MLJ

Special weather statement, Oct 19, 7:30 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
730 PM EDT FRI OCT 19 2012

NYZ009-037-200000-
ONEIDA NY-
730 PM EDT FRI OCT 19 2012

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY...

* AT 725 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG
  GUSTY WINDS.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HOLLAND PATENT...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  TRENTON FALLS AND TRENTON AT 735 PM EDT...
  HINCKLEY AND PROSPECT AT 740 PM EDT...

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.

LAT...LON 4349 7509 4333 7507 4330 7511 4330 7514
      4326 7515 4324 7510 4324 7507 4322 7506
      4312 7515 4323 7535 4350 7510

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Oct 19, 9:52 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	6 hr
Oct 19, 5:30 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Susquehanna	45 min

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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.