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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

October 30, 20136 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this high wind watch at Oct 30, 2013, 3:13 PM EDT for 6 counties in New York. It took effect at Nov 1, 2013, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 30, 2013, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 1, 2013, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 31, 2013, 3:50 AM EDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Yates County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:12 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 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 203 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 12:00Z on 2013-10-30Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2013-10-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 138 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
138 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
271 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 high wind 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 high wind watch went out at Oct 30, 1:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 30, 1:41 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
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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.