Alert archive / New York / Lake Effect Snow Warnings in 2016
Lake Effect Snow Warning 1, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this lake effect snow warning at Dec 31, 2015, 7:13 PM EST for Oneida County, New York. It took effect at Jan 1, 2016, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 14 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 31, 2015, 7:13 PM EST (00:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 1, 2016, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 2, 2016, 8:45 AM EST
- In force
- 14 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 00:14 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, 0.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 827 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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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.