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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 2, 1994Monroe County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 1994, 4:55 PM EDT for Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 2, 1994, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 1994, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Monroe County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 640 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 56 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.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:19 PM EDT, 2 hours 36 minutes before

PA038>040-043>044-047>048-021930-

SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
219 PM EDT TUE AUG 2 1994

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS
NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN
LACKAWANNA COUNTY...REACHING CLARKS SUMMIT BY 230 PM AND CARBONDALE
AROUND 300 PM.  ANOTHER STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NEW YORK -
PENNSYLVANIA STATE LINE JUST SOUTH OF ELMIRA...REACHING THE SAYRE AREA
AROUND 300 PM.  ANOTHER STORM WILL MOVE JUST NORTH OF TOWANDA BETWEEN
245 AND 300 PM.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY OVER NORTHEASTERN
PENNSYLVANIA AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES.

WALDSTREICHER

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:20 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before

PA038>040-043>044-047>048-021930-

SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
219 PM EDT TUE AUG 2 1994

...SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY ACROSS
NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND
LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL WILL MOVE ACROSS NORTHERN
LACKAWANNA COUNTY...REACHING CLARKS SUMMIT BY 230 PM AND CARBONDALE
AROUND 300 PM.  ANOTHER STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE NEW YORK -
PENNSYLVANIA STATE LINE JUST SOUTH OF ELMIRA...REACHING THE SAYRE AREA
AROUND 300 PM.  ANOTHER STORM WILL MOVE JUST NORTH OF TOWANDA BETWEEN
245 AND 300 PM.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP RAPIDLY OVER NORTHEASTERdN
PENNSYLVANIA AS THE AFTERNOON PROGRESSES.

WALDSTREICHER

Special weather statement, Aug 2, 2:55 PM EDT, 2 hours before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:24 PM EDT, 1 hour 31 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 2, 3:25 PM EDT, 1 hour 30 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
Aug 2, 2:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Onondaga	63 min
Aug 2, 4:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cortland	65 min
Aug 2, 4:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Madison	46 min
Aug 2, 4:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Tompkins	46 min
Aug 2, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango	62 min

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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.