Alert archive / New York / Winter Storm Watches in 2012
Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this winter storm watch at Feb 28, 2012, 4:11 AM EST for 8 counties in New York; Pike County, Susquehanna County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 29, 2012, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 28, 2012, 4:11 AM EST (09:11 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 29, 2012, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 28, 2012, 4:23 PM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
Counties Broome County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Pike County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:08 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 1968 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 184 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 28, 4:23 PM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BGM | Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 11 more | 47 hr |
Nearby
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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.