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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Binghamton, NY

January 19, 1996Pike County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 19, 1996, 12:46 PM EST for Pike County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 5 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 19, 1996, 12:46 PM EST (17:46 UTC)
Expired
Jan 19, 1996, 6:00 PM EST
In force
5 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Pike County, PA, Wayne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 104 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 173 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-01-19Temperature 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-01-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 518 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
517 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
518 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
588 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.

NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jan 19, 9:45 AM EST, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 19, 9:45 AM EST, 3 hours 1 minute before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
945 AM EST FRI JAN 19 1996

UPDATED TIMING AND FOR WARNINGS...OTRW...NO CHGS.

COORD BUF/PHL.

.BGM...FLOOD WARNING AND HIGH WIND WARNING ALL NY ZONES

LAKE SNOW OUTLOOK
11 AM FRI TO 7 PM FRI...N.
7 PM FRI TO 7 AM SAT...N/F...LES DEVELOPING AT END OF PERIOD INTO SAT
7 AM SAT TO 7 PM SAT...N...WINDS COME AROUND TO SW.

MORFORD

The office that day

Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 19, 12:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMPike, Wayne42 min
Jan 19, 12:46 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMLackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming5 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1996Every flash flood warning in 1996

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.