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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 1, 20264 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this frost advisory at May 1, 2026, 1:24 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at May 2, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 1, 2026, 1:24 PM EDT (17:24 UTC)
In effect from
May 2, 2026, 12:00 AM EDT
Expired
May 2, 2026, 9:00 AM EDT
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Yates County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:28 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 165 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2026-05-01Temperature 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2026-05-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1225 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
121 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
May 1, 1:24 PM EDTFreeze WatchBGMLackawanna, Luzerne24 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.