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Snow Squall Warning 28, NWS Binghamton, NY

December 31, 20198 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this snow squall warning at Dec 31, 2019, 3:39 PM EST for 8 counties in New York. It was in force for 66 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
Dec 31, 2019, 3:39 PM EST (20:39 UTC)
Expired
Dec 31, 2019, 4:45 PM EST
In force
66 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

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

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 172 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 2019-12-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2019-12-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 148 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
730 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
180 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
Dec 31, 1:49 PM ESTSnow Squall WarningBGMSteuben, Yates56 min
Dec 31, 2:43 PM ESTSnow Squall WarningBGMCayuga, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Yates62 min
Dec 31, 3:20 PM ESTSnow Squall WarningBGMCayuga, Onondaga55 min
Dec 31, 4:02 PM ESTSnow Squall WarningBGMMadison, Oneida, Onondaga28 min
Dec 31, 4:06 PM ESTSnow Squall WarningBGMMadison, Oneida, Onondaga54 min
Dec 31, 4:33 PM ESTSnow Squall WarningBGMBroome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Otsego and 2 more57 min
Dec 31, 4:48 PM ESTSnow Squall WarningBGMMadison, Oneida, Otsego57 min
Dec 31, 5:20 PM ESTSnow Squall WarningBGMBroome, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Otsego and 1 more55 min
Dec 31, 6:02 PM ESTSnow Squall WarningBGMBroome, Delaware, Otsego58 min
Dec 31, 3:50 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBradford40 min
Dec 31, 5:02 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBradford58 min
Dec 31, 5:44 PM ESTSnow Squall WarningBGMBradford, Susquehanna, Wyoming61 min

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.