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Frost Advisory 9, NWS Binghamton, NY

October 16, 20204 counties in New York; Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this frost advisory at Oct 16, 2020, 3:24 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York; Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Oct 17, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 16, 2020, 3:24 AM EDT (07:24 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 17, 2020, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired
Oct 17, 2020, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Yates County, NY, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:24 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 201 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 00:00Z on 2020-10-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2020-10-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -46 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
922 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
91 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.