Cornell-National Weather Service Collaborative Website

Severe Thunderstorm/Convection

Formal Publications

• Severe Weather and the inverted V sounding in New York and Pennsylvania - Mike Evans NOAA / NWS Binghamton, NY and Barry Lambert NOAA / NWS State College, PA. Published in the National Weather Association Digest
• A Historical-analog-based Severe Weather Checklist for Central New York and Northeast Pennsylvania - Mike Evans.
• An Examination of Low CAPE/High Shear Convective Events in the Binghamton, NY County Warning Area

• WDTB storm of the month on a tornado event on 7/8/14.
• A study on the July 26, 2012 severe outbreak - Part I
• A study on the July 26, 2012 severe outbreak - Part II
• WDTB storm of the month on a hail storm on 5/2/12.
• A study on the April 28, 2011 severe outbreak
• Determining thresholds for 1 inch diameter hail
• Checklist parameter thresholds for significant storm types in the WFO BGM CWA
• A study on convective modes associated with tornadoes in central New York and Northeast Pennsylvania. A Hollings Scholarship project with Timothy Humphrey from SUNY Albany.
• Poster: Tornado Nomograms - Timothy Humphrey from SUNY Albany.
• A Study on the Mother's Day 2003 Null Severe Weather Event - Presented at the Great Lakes Operational Conference, the Severe Storms Conference, and the NR0W (2004).

Flooding

Formal Publications

• Two major heavy rain/flood events in the mid-Atlantic: June 2006 and September 2011 Published in the National Weather Association Journal of Operational Meteorology
• The June 19, 2007 Delaware County Flash Flood: A Meteorological and Hydrological Analysis , by Michael Schaffner, Michael Evans and Justin Arnott NOAA/National Weather Service Binghamton, NY
• WFO Binghamton, New York: Flash Flood Climatology by Christopher M. Gitro

Conference Abstracts, Recorded Training and Other Presentations

• Abstract: Lessons Learned from the 13-14 May 2014 Flash Flood Event in the Finger Lakes Region of Central New York State
• Moore, Benjamin J., Lance F. Bosart, Daniel Keyser, Michael L. Jurewicz, 2013: Synoptic-Scale Environments of Predecessor Rain Events Occurring East of the Rocky Mountains in Association with Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclones*. Mon. Wea. Rev., 141, 1022–1047. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/MWR-D-12-00178.1
• Flash Flood Warning Performance Improvement - Michael L. Jurewicz, Sr. NOAA/National Weather Service, Binghamton, New York at the WFO GYX Spring Workshop May 7, 2012.
• Predecessor Rainfall Events (PRE) in tropical cyclones: results from a recent Northeast U.S. Collaborative Science, Technology, and Research (CSTAR) Project.
• The Historic Heavy Rainfall and Flooding Events of 7-8 September 2011 across the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern States, Michael L. Jurewicz, Sr. NOAA/National Weather Service, Binghamton, New York
• A Predecessor Rainfall Event (PRE) Across Sections of the Ohio River Valley Associated with Hurricane Katrina
• Maximum potential precipitable water - development and application for forecasting flash flood potential
• A Study of Predecessor Rainfall Events (PRE) in Advance of Tropical Cyclones
• A Statistical Comparison of the Properties of Flash Flooding and Nonflooding Precipitation Events in Portions of New York and Pennsylvania - Published in Weather and Forecasting - (Results from a COMET project with Cornell University)
• Cool-season Moderate Precipitation Events in the Northeastern United States - A collaboration with SUNY Albany via the CSTAR project. - a pdf file.
• A Preliminary Climatological Analysis Of River Flooding Along Major Central New York River Basins

Winter

Formal Publications

• Correlations Between Analyses and Forecasts of Banded Heavy Snow Ingredients and Observed Snowfall - (Submitted to Weather and Forecasting as a Note)
• A Proposed Methodology for Reconciling High-Resolution Numerical Modeling Guidance with Pattern Recognition to Predict Lake-Effect Snow (Published in the NWA Electronic Journal - 2008)
• A Study of a frontogenetically forced early spring snowstorm - Published in BAMS - January 2006.
• A Comparison of Two Banded, Heavy Snowstorms with Very Different Synoptic Settings - Published in Weather and Forecasting - December 2004.

Conference Abstracts, Recorded Training and Other Presentations

• Mechanisms for transient and long-duration mesoscale snowbands in northeast U.S. winter storms: A collaborative project with SUNY Albany through the CSTAR research grant. Abstract for NROW 2013 meeting.
• The motion of mesoscale snowbands in northeast U.S. winter storms.An ER webinar presented on January 22, 2014
• Abstract: The Impact of Convective Mode on the Morphology of Lake-Effect Snow Bands
• Using Satellite Imagery to Improve Forecasting of Lake-Effect Snow Bands With a Multi-Lake Connection- a COMET partners project between WFO Binghamton and Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
• Examples of Frontal Precipitation Bands. A recorded lesson for the WDTB winter weather operations course
• A Preliminary Examination of the Elevation Dependence of Snowfall in Northeast Pennsylvania. - Mike Evans, Michael L. Jurewicz, Sr. NOAA/NWS Binghamton, NY and Robert Ballentine, SUNY Oswego
• A Comparative Analysis of Two Heavy Banded Snow Events for the East Coast and the Central US
• Recorded Teletraining on Correlations Between Analyses and Forecasts of Banded Heavy Snow Ingredients and Observed Snowfall
• Development and Verfication of a Sub-Regional WRF Ensemble for Lake Effect Snow Forecasting
• Regional scale ensemble forecast of the lake effect snow event of 7 February, 2007* (Presented at the WAF conference in Park City, UT in June, 2007)
• A Method to Reliably Predict Convective Modes (Organized Bands vs. Open- Cellular Development) in Late Season Lake-Effect Snow Events (Presented at several conferences in 2007)
• Mesoscale Structure of Precipitation Regions in northeast winter storms - a collaboration with SUNY Albany via the CSTAR project. - a pdf file.
• A Study on precipiation patterns associated with cold season closed lows - A collaboration with SUNY Albany via the CSTAR project.

Climate

• Paleoclimatology- Window to the Future? David J. Nicosia Warning Coordination Meteorologist National Weather Service Binghamton, NY.

Miscellaneous

• Abstract: How Facebook Is Used In Operations at National Weather Service Binghamton, NY
• An Examination of a localized high wind event at Avoca Pennsylvania - Michael Evans NOAA/NWS Binghamton, NY
• A Project to Improve Forecasts of Radiation Fog at Elmira, New York
• An Investigation of Bird Radar Echoes Detected by the WSR-88D Doppler Radar at WFO Binghamton, NY

Workshops/Local Research Events

• WFO BGM Sub-Regional Workshop - 2015
• The 2011 U.S.-Canadian Great Lakes Operational Workshop «More Information»
• Eastern Region Flash Flood Conference - 2010

• May 18, 2017 Severe Weather Event in Central NY
• May 1, 2017 Severe Weather Event for Northeast PA and central NY
• The March 14, 2017 Record-breaking Snowstorm in Central NY and Northeast PA
• The February 25, 2017 Severe Weather Outbreak
• The February 12-13 2017 Winter Storm
• The January 23-24, 2017 Winter Storm

• December 14-15, 2016 Lake Effect Snow Event
• The November 19-21, 2016 Snow Event in Central NY and Northeast PA
• July 25, 2016 severe weather event – central NY and northeast PA
• The July 22, 2016 Null Event
• June 11, 2016 null case with Convection allowing models (recorded)
• The February 24th, 2016 Tornado Event in Northeast Pennsylvania
• The major mid-Atlantic snow storm of January 23, 2016
• January 13, 2016 Heavy Lake Effect Snow Near Syracuse

• The July 26, 2015 Bradford County flash Flood
• The June 14, 2015 Finger Lakes Area Flash Flood
• The June 30, 2015 Syracuse Area Flash Flood
• The March 18, 2015 Central New York and Northeast Pennsylvania Snow Band

• January 2-3, 2014 Winter Storm
• February 5, 2014 Winter Storm
• February 13-14 Winter Storm: An Example of an Analog System’s Benefits
• March 30-31, 2014 winter storm
• May 22, 2014 Severe Weather Event
• July 8, 2014 Severe Weather and Tornado Outbreak
• July 31, 2014 Severe Weather
• September 2, 2014 Severe Weather
• November 26, 2014 Snow Storm

• The February 8, 2013 snow event in central New York and northeast Pennsylvania
• The February 26-27, 2013 Mixed Precipitation Event
• The April 19, 2013 Severe Weather Event with an EF1 Tornado
• June 27-28, 2013 Flash Flood Event
• The December 14-15, 2013 Winter Storm

• May 3, 2012 Central New York Hailstorm: An Analysis of Dual-Pol Hail Signatures
• April 23, 2012 Heavy Wet Snow Event
• July 26, 2012 Severe Weather/Tornado Event
• Super-storm Sandy - October 29-30, 2012
• December 27, 2012 Winter Storm

• February 2, 2011 Mixed Precipitation Event
• The March 6-7, 2011 winter storm
• April 26, 2011 Severe Weather Event
• April 27, 2011 Severe Weather Event
• April 28, 2011 Severe Weather Event
• May 26-27, 2011 Severe Weather Event
• August 28, 2011 Flood and Flash Flood Hurricane Irene
• September 7-8, 2011 Flood

• January 03, 2010 Lake Enhanced Snow Storm
• January 25, 2010 Flooding
• February 23-24, 2010 snowstorm
• February 25-26, 2010 snowstorm
• April 08, 2010 Severe Weather
• The June 22, 2010 Bradford County Tornado
• The July 23, 2010 Northeast Pennsylvania Tornado Outbreak
• The September 30-October 1, 2010 Heavy Rain Event
• December 1, 2010 Wind and Rainstorm
• The December 4-9, 2010 Central New York Lake Effect Snowstorm
• Comparison of the December 5 though 8 and December 14 Lake Effect Snow Events

• January 18, 2009 Snowstorm
• The May 16, 2009 Severe Weather Outbreak Part 1 : The pre-storm environment - this is a PDF file. Move your mouse over the little cloud in the upper left hand corner of the presentation to view speaker notes.
• The May 16, 2009 Severe Weather Outbreak Part 2 : A Mesoscale and Radar Perspective of the Tornadic Supercells - this is a PDF file. Move your mouse over the little cloud in the upper left hand corner of the presentation to view speaker notes.

• March 8, 2008 Central Southern Tier Ice Storm
• The June 16, 2008 Hail Event
• The July 23, 2008 Early Morning Severe Weather Outbreak in Central New York
• The October 28 2008 Snow Event: Model Trends and Forecast Implications - speaker notes in this PDF file show up as a mouse over popup in the upper left hand corner of a slide.
• Banding Aspects of the 28-29 October Snowstorm
• The December 11-12, 2008 Winter Storm
• Precipitation-type forecasting during the December 16, 2007 and February 1, 2008 Mixed Precipitation Events
• The The December 31, 2008 Snow Storm

• February 5-6, 2007 Heavy Lake Effect Snow Event in Oneida county
• February 13-14, 2007 Snowstorm
• The March 16-17, 2007 Snowstorm
• Northeast Flow Severe Weather June 12th, 2007
• The April 15-16, 2007 Snowstorm
• "PRE-Like" Activity In Advance of Tropical Storm Barry (June 1-3, 2007)
• The June 19, 2007 Delaware County Flash Flood: A Meteorological and Hydrological Analysis
• The November 18-19, 2007 Snowstorm
• December 15-16, 2007 Winter Storm in Central New York and Northeast Pennsylvania

• January 2-3, 2006 and October 25, 2005 Elevation Snowstorms
• Multi-Faceted Lake Effect Snow Event of January 25-26, 2006
• The June 26-28, 2006 Flood in central New York and northeast Pennsylvania
• August 3, 2006 – Severe Weather
• November 16, 2006 Flash Flooding and Severe Weather
• December 1, 2006 Severe Weather and Northeast Pennsylvania Tornadoes

• The January 5-6, 2005 Winter Storm (slide show including speaker notes)
• The January 22-23, 2005 Snowstorm (slide show including speaker notes)
• Summary of Finger Lakes Snow Band Research (a power point presentation)
• The February 28 - March 1, 2005 Snowstorm (slide show including speaker notes)
• The March 1, 2005 Isolated Heavy Snow Band (slide show including speaker notes)
• The January 17-18, 2005 Finger Lakes Snow Band (slide show including speaker notes)
• The April 2-3, 2005 Flood (slide show including speaker notes)
• The June 6, 2005 Derecho
• August 12, 2005 - Severe Weather Event With Isolated Tornadoes
• December 2-3, 2005 Lake Effect Snow Event

• The January 28, 2004 Snow Event. (slide show including speaker notes).
• The January 29-31, 2004 Lake Effect Snowstorm. (slide show including speaker notes).
• The April 18, 2004 Severe Weather Outbreak. (slide show including speaker notes).
• A Case Study of the April 18, 2004 Severe Weather Event across Upstate New York.
• The May 12, 2004 Flash Flooding in Northeast Pennsylvania. (slide show including speaker notes).
• The May 22, 2004 Supercell Event.(slide show including speaker notes).
• The May 24, 2004 Severe Weather Outbreak. (slide show including speaker notes).
• The Tropical Cyclone - Induced Flooding of 2004. (slide show including speaker notes).
• Heavy Rain From the Remains of Tropical Cyclone Frances - September 8-9, 2004. (slide show including speaker notes).
• Heavy Rain Associated With Remnants of Hurricane Ivan (slide show including speaker notes).
• The November 25, 2004 Severe Weather Outbreak (slide show including speaker notes)

• The Presidents Day 2003, Snow Storm.
• A Study on the Mother's Day 2003 Null Severe Weather Event.
• The July 21, 2003 Severe Weather Outbreak

• The January 6, 2002 banded snowstorm.
• The January 19, 2002 banded snowstorm.
• The March 9-10, 2002 serial derecho.
• The Bear Creek Flash Flood of May 28, 2002.
• The May 31, 2002 tornado outbreak.
• The December 11-12, 2002 Winter Storm.
• The December 13-14, 2002 Winter Storm.
• The Christmas 2002, Snow Storm.

• The September 24th, 2001 Fabius F1 tornado.
• The Convective Wind Event of 4 November 2001.