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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 21, NWS Binghamton, NY

December 26, 2013Oneida County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this lake effect snow advisory at Dec 26, 2013, 1:54 PM EST for Oneida County, New York. It took effect at Dec 26, 2013, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 26, 2013, 1:54 PM EST (18:54 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 26, 2013, 7:00 PM EST
Expired
Dec 27, 2013, 3:08 AM EST
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

County Oneida County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 2013-12-26Temperature 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2013-12-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 252 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
1085 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
252 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
308 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
Dec 26, 1:59 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryBGMBroome, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Oneida and 2 more12 hr
Dec 26, 3:43 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBroome, Chenango, Tioga62 min
Dec 26, 4:45 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMDelaware60 min

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.