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Frost Advisory 1, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 13, 201515 counties in New York; 7 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this frost advisory at May 13, 2015, 2:50 AM EDT for 15 counties in New York; 7 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at May 14, 2015, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 2015, 2:50 AM EDT (06:50 UTC)
In effect from
May 14, 2015, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired
May 14, 2015, 8:00 AM EDT
In force
8 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
All 22 counties

Broome County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Yates County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 3 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:55 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 00:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 184 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 00:00Z on 2015-05-13Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2015-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -191 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
1633 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
87 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-191 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 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
May 13, 2:50 AM EDTFreeze WarningBGMDelaware, Oneida, Steuben29 hr

Nearby

Frost Advisories in New York, 2015Frost Advisories in Pennsylvania, 2015Every frost advisory 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.