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Frost Advisory 6, NWS Binghamton, NY

October 4, 20144 counties in New York; Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this frost advisory at Oct 4, 2014, 2:36 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York; Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Oct 5, 2014, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 4, 2014, 2:36 PM EDT (18:36 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 5, 2014, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 5, 2014, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Yates County, NY, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 201 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 12:00Z on 2014-10-04Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2014-10-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -136 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
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
81 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.