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Winter Storm Warning 1, NWS Binghamton, NY

January 12, 201811 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this winter storm warning at Jan 12, 2018, 3:54 AM EST for 11 counties in New York. It took effect at Jan 12, 2018, 6:00 PM EST. It was in force for 18 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: Jan 12, 2018, 3:54 AM EST (08:54 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 12, 2018, 6:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 13, 2018, 11:55 AM EST
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Yates County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:56 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 183 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: 693 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 394 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 385 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 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 12, 2:04 AM EST, 1 hour 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 12, 2:04 AM EST, 1 hour 50 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, 6:12 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Steuben, Yates	4 hr
Jan 12, 6:20 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga and 4 more	4 hr
Jan 12, 8:05 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Cayuga	12 hr
Jan 12, 8:23 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Oneida	12 hr
Jan 12, 8:37 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Oneida	6 hr
Jan 12, 9:20 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Cortland	54 hr
Jan 12, 9:48 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Onondaga	31 hr
Jan 12, 10:54 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Steuben	6 hr
Jan 12, 11:01 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Oneida	6 hr
Jan 12, 11:03 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Madison, Onondaga	6 hr
Jan 12, 12:19 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Steuben	6 hr
Jan 12, 12:48 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Sullivan	6 hr
Jan 12, 1:52 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Sullivan	6 hr
Jan 12, 2:30 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Oneida	6 hr
Jan 12, 4:04 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	6 hr
Jan 12, 4:17 PM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Onondaga	24 hr
Jan 12, 5:57 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	6 hr

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.