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Snow Squall Warning 13, NWS Binghamton, NY

January 28, 20257 counties in New York; Bradford County, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this snow squall warning at Jan 28, 2025, 7:19 AM EST for 7 counties in New York; Bradford County, Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 26 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: Jan 28, 2025, 7:19 AM EST (12:19 UTC)
Expired: Jan 28, 2025, 7:45 AM EST
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Broome County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:19 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 329 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: 1977 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 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 Jan 28, 6:53 AM EST, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 28, 6:53 AM EST, 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 28, 6:07 AM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 28, 6:40 AM EST, 39 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
Jan 28, 3:54 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	BGM	Oneida	6 hr
Jan 28, 4:24 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Schuyler and 2 more	66 min
Jan 28, 4:53 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Yates	52 min
Jan 28, 5:33 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Madison and 7 more	27 min
Jan 28, 5:44 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben	46 min
Jan 28, 6:02 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Otsego and 4 more	58 min
Jan 28, 6:27 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Chemung, Steuben, Tioga	63 min
Jan 28, 6:58 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	62 min
Jan 28, 7:00 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	60 min
Jan 28, 7:47 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins	43 min
Jan 28, 7:49 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Sullivan	41 min
Jan 28, 8:00 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Delaware	60 min
Jan 28, 8:35 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Steuben, Tioga	40 min
Jan 28, 9:59 AM EST	Winter Storm Warning	BGM	Oneida	39 hr
Jan 28, 9:59 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BGM	Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Onondaga and 2 more	39 hr
Jan 28, 7:18 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Bradford, Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wyoming	42 min
Jan 28, 8:03 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne, Wyoming	42 min
Jan 28, 8:34 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Pike	41 min
Jan 28, 8:42 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Wayne	33 min
Jan 28, 8:52 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Susquehanna	38 min
Jan 28, 9:18 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Bradford, Susquehanna, Wayne	42 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.