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Freeze Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 26, 20135 counties in New York; Bradford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this freeze warning at May 26, 2013, 4:21 AM EDT for 5 counties in New York; Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at May 27, 2013, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 2013, 4:21 AM EDT (08:21 UTC)
In effect from
May 27, 2013, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
May 27, 2013, 7:58 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Chemung County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Bradford County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 23 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:24 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 214 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2013-05-26Temperature 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2013-05-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
1891 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 4:21 AM EDTFrost AdvisoryBGMBroome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida and 6 more28 hr

Nearby

Freeze Warnings in New York, 2013Freeze Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2013Every freeze warning in 2013

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.