Alert archive / New York / Freeze Warnings in 2015
Freeze Warning 3, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this freeze warning at Oct 17, 2015, 3:23 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York; Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Oct 18, 2015, 1:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 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
- Oct 17, 2015, 3:23 AM EDT (07:23 UTC)
- In effect from
- Oct 18, 2015, 1:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2015, 8:21 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 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 07:21 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, 7.4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -6 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 802 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 16 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Freeze Warnings in New York, 2015Freeze Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2015Every freeze warning in 2015
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.