Alert archive / New York / Lake Effect Snow Warnings in 2016
Lake Effect Snow Warning 5, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this lake effect snow warning at Nov 19, 2016, 4:02 AM EST for 12 counties in New York; Susquehanna County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Nov 20, 2016, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for 51 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
- Nov 19, 2016, 4:02 AM EST (09:02 UTC)
- In effect from
- Nov 20, 2016, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Nov 22, 2016, 4:00 AM EST
- In force
- 51 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
Counties Broome County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Yates County, NY, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:01 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 3227 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake effect snow warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this lake effect snow warning went out at Nov 19, 1:53 AM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 19, 1:53 AM EST, 2 hours 9 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 19, 4:02 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | BGM | Broome, Chemung, Delaware, Otsego, Schuyler, Seneca and 4 more | 72 hr |
| Nov 19, 2:00 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BGM | Broome, Chemung, Sullivan, Tioga | 53 hr |
Nearby
Lake Effect Snow Warnings in New York, 2016Lake Effect Snow Warnings in Pennsylvania, 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.