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Snow Squall Warning 13, NWS Binghamton, NY

February 19, 2022Sullivan County, New York; Lackawanna County, Pike County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this snow squall warning at Feb 19, 2022, 1:13 PM EST for Sullivan County, New York; Lackawanna County, Pike County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 62 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: Feb 19, 2022, 1:13 PM EST (18:13 UTC)
Expired: Feb 19, 2022, 2:15 PM EST
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Sullivan County, NY, Lackawanna County, PA, Pike County, PA, Wayne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:13 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 207 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: 1350 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 76 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 196 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 182 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 snow squall warning 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 snow squall warning went out at Feb 18, 3:37 PM EST, 21 hours 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 18, 3:37 PM EST, 21 hours 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
Feb 19, 2:10 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	3 hr
Feb 19, 8:40 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Steuben	50 min
Feb 19, 8:55 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca	50 min
Feb 19, 9:02 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Schuyler, Seneca, Yates	58 min
Feb 19, 9:29 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Chemung, Steuben	61 min
Feb 19, 9:40 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga	65 min
Feb 19, 10:01 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Schuyler, Tompkins	44 min
Feb 19, 10:24 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Chemung, Steuben, Tioga	51 min
Feb 19, 10:29 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Tioga	46 min
Feb 19, 10:38 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	52 min
Feb 19, 10:47 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Broome, Cortland	43 min
Feb 19, 10:53 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	67 min
Feb 19, 11:14 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Tioga	61 min
Feb 19, 11:28 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	62 min
Feb 19, 12:10 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Broome, Delaware, Otsego, Sullivan	65 min
Feb 19, 12:15 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, Wyoming	60 min

Nearby

Snow Squall Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2022 Snow Squall Warnings in New York, 2022 Every snow squall warning in 2022

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.