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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 21, 1989Livingston County, Monroe County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 1989, 6:00 AM EDT for Livingston County, Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 21, 1989, 6:00 AM EDT (10:00 UTC)
Expired
Jun 21, 1989, 12:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Livingston County, NY, Monroe 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 00:00Z on 1989-06-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1989-06-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
130 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 20, 8:15 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMSteuben6 hr
Jun 20, 8:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMLivingston6 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.