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Winter Storm Watch 2, NWS Binghamton, NY
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.
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
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.
- 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
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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Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 22, 3:14 PM EDT | Winter Storm Warning | BGM | Steuben | 23 hr |
| Apr 22, 3:14 PM EDT | Winter Weather Advisory | BGM | Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Onondaga, Schuyler, Seneca and 3 more | 20 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.