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Lake Effect Snow Warning 4, NWS Binghamton, NY

February 27, 2014Madison County, Oneida County, Onondaga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this lake effect snow warning at Feb 27, 2014, 2:27 PM EST for Madison County, Oneida County, Onondaga County, New York. It was in force for 18 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
Feb 27, 2014, 2:27 PM EST (19:27 UTC)
Expired
Feb 28, 2014, 8:24 AM EST
In force
18 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:26 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 342 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2014-02-27Temperature 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2014-02-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 246 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
1251 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
246 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
287 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
Feb 27, 2:12 AM ESTLake Effect Snow AdvisoryBGMMadison, Oneida, Onondaga12 hr
Feb 27, 2:12 AM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryBGMBroome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 11 more30 hr
Feb 27, 11:07 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMSeneca, Steuben, Yates53 min
Feb 27, 11:54 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMCayuga, Chemung, Onondaga, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben and 2 more66 min
Feb 27, 12:50 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBroome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida and 4 more85 min
Feb 27, 2:11 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBroome, Delaware, Otsego64 min
Feb 27, 3:17 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMDelaware, Sullivan43 min

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Warnings in New York, 2014Every lake effect snow warning in 2014

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.