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Winter Storm Warning 4, NWS Binghamton, NY

March 22, 2020Delaware County, Oneida County, Sullivan County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this winter storm warning at Mar 22, 2020, 1:44 PM EDT for Delaware County, Oneida County, Sullivan County, New York. It took effect at Mar 23, 2020, 5:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 17 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
Mar 22, 2020, 1:44 PM EDT (17:44 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 23, 2020, 5:00 AM EDT
Expired
Mar 23, 2020, 10:12 PM EDT
In force
17 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Delaware County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Sullivan County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2020-03-22Temperature 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2020-03-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -92 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
59 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-92 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 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
Mar 22, 4:14 AM EDTWinter Storm WatchBGMDelaware, Sullivan10 hr
Mar 22, 4:14 AM EDTWinter Weather AdvisoryBGMBroome, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga and 1 more42 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.