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Lake Effect Snow Warning 3, NWS Binghamton, NY

December 18, 2015Oneida County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this lake effect snow warning at Dec 18, 2015, 3:38 AM EST for Oneida County, New York. It took effect at Dec 18, 2015, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 33 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
Dec 18, 2015, 3:38 AM EST (08:38 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 18, 2015, 7:00 PM EST
Expired
Dec 20, 2015, 3:51 AM EST
In force
33 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 08:44 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 267 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 00:00Z on 2015-12-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 4 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 00:00Z on 2015-12-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -30 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
4 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-3 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
724 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
66 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
149 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.