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Wind Advisory 12, NWS Binghamton, NY

November 1, 2020Delaware County, Otsego County, Sullivan County, New York; 4 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this wind advisory at Nov 1, 2020, 3:08 PM EST for Delaware County, Otsego County, Sullivan County, New York; 4 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Nov 2, 2020, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 1, 2020, 3:08 PM EST (20:08 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 2, 2020, 6:00 AM EST
Expired: Nov 2, 2020, 6:59 PM EST
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Delaware County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Wayne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:06 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 221 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: 1013 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 301 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 wind advisory 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 wind advisory went out at Nov 1, 3:06 PM EST, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 1, 3:06 PM EST, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 1, 3:52 AM EST, 11 hours 16 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Nov 1, 2:32 PM EST, 36 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
Nov 1, 3:25 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	BGM	Oneida	25 hr
Nov 1, 3:25 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BGM	Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga and 1 more	31 hr
Nov 1, 2:32 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chemung, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Schuyler and 2 more	58 min
Nov 1, 3:21 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Tioga	54 min
Nov 1, 4:13 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	62 min
Nov 1, 5:06 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	54 min

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.