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Lake Effect Snow Warning 4, NWS Binghamton, NY

February 10, 2016Madison County, Oneida County, Onondaga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this lake effect snow warning at Feb 10, 2016, 3:38 AM EST for Madison County, Oneida County, Onondaga County, New York. It took effect at Feb 10, 2016, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 30 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 10, 2016, 3:38 AM EST (08:38 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 10, 2016, 1:00 PM EST
Expired
Feb 11, 2016, 7:18 PM EST
In force
30 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 08:40 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 239 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 2016-02-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 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 2016-02-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -20 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
631 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-20 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
68 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 10, 5:34 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBroome, Chemung, Tioga, Tompkins56 min
Feb 10, 6:32 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBroome, Tioga73 min

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Warnings in New York, 2016Every lake effect snow warning in 2016

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.