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Snow Squall Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

January 27, 20194 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this snow squall warning at Jan 27, 2019, 8:08 AM EST for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 67 min. 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 27, 2019, 8:08 AM EST (13:08 UTC)
Expired
Jan 27, 2019, 9:15 AM EST
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

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

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:08 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, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 144 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 12:00Z on 2019-01-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2019-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 79 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
574 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
133 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
Jan 27, 7:20 AM ESTSnow Squall WarningBGMSteuben, Yates55 min
Jan 27, 9:05 AM ESTSnow Squall WarningBGMCayuga, Onondaga40 min
Jan 27, 9:14 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMChemung, Cortland, Madison, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins61 min
Jan 27, 9:52 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMCayuga, Oneida, Onondaga53 min
Jan 27, 10:02 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBroome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego118 min
Jan 27, 10:11 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMChemung, Cortland, Madison, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins109 min
Jan 27, 10:44 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMOneida, Onondaga91 min
Jan 27, 12:05 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBroome, Chenango, Madison, Tioga85 min
Jan 27, 12:33 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMOneida87 min
Jan 27, 3:05 PM ESTWinter Storm WatchBGMBroome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison and 6 more24 hr

Nearby

Snow Squall Warnings in New York, 2019Every snow squall warning in 2019

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.