Alert archive / New York / Snow Squall Warnings in 2021
Snow Squall Warning 3, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this snow squall warning at Feb 20, 2021, 1:23 PM EST for Chenango County, Delaware County, Otsego County, 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 outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 20, 2021, 1:23 PM EST (18:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2021, 2:30 PM EST
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Chenango County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Otsego County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 130 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 920 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
454
WWUS51 KBGM 201824
SQWBGM
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
Snow Squall Warning
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
123 PM EST Sat Feb 20 2021
NYC017-025-077-201930-
/O.NEW.KBGM.SQ.W.0003.210220T1823Z-210220T1930Z/
Otsego NY-Delaware NY-Chenango NY-
123 PM EST Sat Feb 20 2021
The National Weather Service in Binghamton has issued a
* Snow Squall Warning for...
Southwestern Otsego County in central New York...
Northwestern Delaware County in central New York...
Central Chenango County in central New York...
* Until 230 PM EST.
* At 123 PM EST, a dangerous snow squall was located along a line
extending from near Oxford to near Mt Upton, moving southeast at 20
mph.
HAZARD...Extremely poor visibility in heavy snow and blowing snow.
Wind gusts up to 30 mph.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Dangerous life-threatening travel.
Locations impacted include...
Norwich, Sidney, Walton, Guilford, Colchester, Oxford, Bainbridge,
Hamden, Masonville and Unadilla.
This includes the following highway exits...
Interstate 88 between 8 and 12.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
Reduce your speed and turn on headlights! During snow squalls, the
visibility may suddenly drop to near zero in whiteout conditions.
&&
LAT...LON 4213 7533 4219 7486 4252 7535 4253 7575
TIME...MOT...LOC 1823Z 306DEG 19KT 4247 7560 4240 7532
$$
HLCThe office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 9:36 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins | 54 min |
| Feb 20, 12:57 PM EST | Snow Squall Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Onondaga | 63 min |
| Feb 20, 2:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Chenango, Delaware | 31 min |
| Feb 20, 3:35 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Tompkins | 55 min |
| Feb 20, 4:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Broome, Chemung, Tioga | 46 min |
| Feb 20, 4:58 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Broome, Chemung, Tioga | 47 min |
| Feb 20, 5:27 PM EST | Snow Squall Warning | BGM | Broome, Tioga | 48 min |
| Feb 20, 5:56 PM EST | Snow Squall Warning | BGM | Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins | 49 min |
| Feb 20, 6:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Tioga | 61 min |
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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.