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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

April 22, 2012Steuben County, Yates County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this winter storm watch at Apr 22, 2012, 5:15 AM EDT for Steuben County, Yates County, New York. It took effect at Apr 22, 2012, 11:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Apr 22, 2012, 5:15 AM EDT (09:15 UTC)
In effect from
Apr 22, 2012, 11:00 PM EDT
Expired
Apr 22, 2012, 3:14 PM EDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Steuben County, NY, Yates County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 281 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2012-04-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 2012-04-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -53 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
445 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Apr 22, 2:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 2:00 AM EDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 22, 3:14 PM EDTWinter Storm WarningBGMSteuben23 hr
Apr 22, 3:14 PM EDTWinter Weather AdvisoryBGMCayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Onondaga, Schuyler, Seneca and 3 more20 hr

Nearby

Winter Storm Watches in New York, 2012Every winter storm watch 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.