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Winter Storm Watch 3, NWS Binghamton, NY

February 11, 20176 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this winter storm watch at Feb 11, 2017, 4:09 AM EST for 6 counties in New York. It took effect at Feb 12, 2017, 7:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 11, 2017, 4:09 AM EST (09:09 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 12, 2017, 7:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 11, 2017, 2:47 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Chenango County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Otsego County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:09 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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 263 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: 743 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 583 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 984 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 winter storm watch went out at Feb 11, 2:37 AM EST, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 2:37 AM EST, 1 hour 32 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
Feb 11, 4:09 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Cortland, Schuyler, Seneca and 5 more	59 hr
Feb 11, 2:47 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison and 7 more	48 hr

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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.