Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1988
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 1988, 1:49 AM EDT for Delaware County, New York. It was in force for 56 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 24, 1988, 1:49 AM EDT (05:49 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 1988, 2:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Delaware County, NY
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Atlantic City In, NJ (KACY), launched 00:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 308 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
- 1456 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 803 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 94 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.5
- Supercell composite
- 3.4
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 56 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1988Every flash flood warning in 1988
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.