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Special Weather Statement, NWS Binghamton, NY

January 12, 20165 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this special weather statement at Jan 12, 2016, 3:12 PM EST for 5 counties in New York. It was in force for 48 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 12, 2016, 3:12 PM EST (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Jan 12, 2016, 4:00 PM EST
In force: 48 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Yates County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:12 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 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 151 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 637 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 53 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 309 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 410 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jan 11, 6:51 PM EST, 20 hours 21 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 6:51 PM EST, 20 hours 21 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 12, 4:03 AM EST	Lake Effect Snow Advisory	BGM	Otsego	39 hr
Jan 12, 1:53 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Steuben, Yates	52 min
Jan 12, 4:04 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chemung, Cortland, Onondaga, Tioga, Tompkins	41 min
Jan 12, 4:42 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Tioga	63 min
Jan 12, 5:35 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chenango, Delaware, Madison, Oneida, Otsego	55 min
Jan 12, 6:02 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cayuga, Chemung, Onondaga, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben and 3 more	28 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2016 Every special weather statement 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.