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Flash Flood Warning 35, NWS Binghamton, NY

November 8, 1996Seneca County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Nov 8, 1996, 8:51 PM EST for Seneca County, New York. It was in force for 6 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
Nov 8, 1996, 8:51 PM EST (01:51 UTC)
Expired
Nov 9, 1996, 3:00 AM EST
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Seneca County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 94 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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 1996-11-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 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 1996-11-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 35 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
507 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
104 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
35 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
218 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 Nov 8, 8:15 PM EST, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 8, 8:15 PM EST, 36 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
815 PM EST FRI NOV 8 1996

FNTL BNDRY OVER ERN PTNS OF FCST AREA W/ LITTL MOTION IN LAST HOUR DUE
TO NEXT SFC WV MOVG UP FROM NE PA. HEAVY PCPN AXIS HAS PIVOTED IN LAST
FEW HOURS IN RESPONSE. FEATURE SHOWS WELL IN STREAMLINES WITH ANOTHER WV
INDICATED OVER MD ATTM. KCCX 88D SHOWS BACK EDGE OF PCPN MAKING STEADY
PROGRESS ERD THRU CENT PA BEHIND THIS FST WV BUT 2ND WV DEPICTED IN
WATER VAPOR IMAGERY WL CERTAINLY IMPEDE PROGRESS OF THE +RA OUT OF THE
EASTERN MOST ZONES.

ETA GRID DATA PCPN FIELDS AND H8 FRONTOGENESIS SHOWS PCPN WL BE SLO TO
CLR EASTERN AREAS AS WELL. AS A RESULT WL SPLIT OUT NYZ046-057-062 FOR
+RA THROUGH MOST OF THE NT.

AS FOR LES...CD AIR DEEPENS LATE ON SAT BUT FLOW QUICKLY BACKS AHEAD OF
PERSISTANT LL TROF AXIS W OF FCST AREA.

QPF...WILL PREPARE ANOTHER QPF PRODUCT AROUND MIDNIGHT.

.BGM...FLOOD WATCH TONIGHT AND SAT FOR ALL OF CNTRL NY AND NE PA.

LAKE SNOW OUTLOOK
10PM FRI TO 7 AM SAT...N
7 AM SAT TO 7 PM SAT...N.
7 PM SAT TO 7 AM SUN...N. ACTVTY N OF CWA

PB

In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 8, 2:56 PM EST, 5 hours 55 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
249 PM EST FRI NOV 08 1996

TIME(EST)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1105 AM    EAST SMITHFIELD           PA   WIND DAMAGE
11/08/96   BRADFORD                       TREES AND WIRES DOWN

1130 AM                              NY   FLOODING
11/08/96   STEUBEN                        SCHOOL EVACUATED DUE TO
                                          FLOODING.  NUMEROUS
                                          REPORTS OF ROADS AND
                                          BRIDGES FLOODED ACROSS
                                          EASTERN PART OF COUNTY

1145 AM    7 NE OWEGO                NY   60 MPH TSTM GUST
11/08/96   TIOGA                          WIND GUST ESTIMATED BY
                                          SKYWARN SPOTTER IN NEWARK
                                          VALLEY

1145 AM    VESTAL                    NY   WIND DAMAGE
11/08/96   BROOME                         GREENHOUSE AT WALLMART IN
                                          TOWN SQUARE MALL DAMAGED

1155 AM    JOHNSON CITY              NY   WIND DAMAGE
11/08/96   BROOME                         LARGE TREE DOWN ACROSS
                                          DALE HILL ROAD

1155 AM    CAMPVILLE                 NY   WIND DAMAGE
11/08/96   TIOGA                          WIRES AND LIMBS DOWN
                                          ACROOS ROUTE 17C

1200 PM    CASTLE CREEK              NY   65 MPH TSTM GUST
11/08/96   BROOME                         ESTIMATED WIND GUST BY
                                          SKYWARN SPOTTER.

1210 PM    3 W MONTROSE              PA   TORNADO
11/08/96   SUSQUEHANNA                    FUNNEL CLOUD 50 FT OFF
                                          GROUND SPOTTED BY
                                          EX-MILITARY METEOROLOGISTS
                                          MANY TREE TOPS TWISTED OFF
                                          NEAR ROUTE 706.
                                          TORNADO UNCONFIRMED.

1215 PM    GREENE                    NY   WIND DAMAGE
11/08/96   CHENANGO                       2 ROOFS DAMAGED AND MANY
                                          LIMBS DOWN ON HOGS BACK
                                          ROAD

1219 PM                              NY   FLOODING
11/08/96   SCHUYLER                       MUD SLIDES ONTO HOUSES
                                          (SPECIFIC LOCATION UNKNOWN
                                          AT THIS TIME). NUMEROUS
                                          ROADS AND BRIDGES WASHING
                                          OUT.

1220 PM                              NY   FLOODING
11/08/96   SENECA                         WIDESPREAD FLOODING ACROSS
                                          THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE
                                          COUNTY.
1230 PM    OXFORD                    NY   TORNADO
11/08/96   CHENANGO                       POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR
                                          KILROY ROAD.  TREES DOWN.
                                          DAMAGE TO BARN AND SILO.
                                          TOP OF SILO TWISTED OFF.

1245 PM    NORWICH                   NY   WIND DAMAGE
11/08/96   CHENANGO                       ROOF OFF GRANGE HALL ON
                                          HALE STREET

1245 PM    PITTSFIELD                NY   WIND DAMAGE
11/08/96   OTSEGO                         ROOF OFF TRAILER NEAR
                                          ROUTE 80

1245 PM    NORWICH                   NY   WIND DAMAGE
11/08/96   CHENANGO                       TREES AND WIRES DOWN

0100 PM                              NY   WIND DAMAGE
11/08/96   OTSEGO                         TREES AND WIRES DOWN
                                          COUNTY WIDE

0130 PM    FRANKLIN  J                NY   WIND DAMAGE
11/08/96   DELAWARE                       WIRES DOWN.  ALSO IN
                                          BLOOMEVILLE.

JSW
Special weather statement, Nov 8, 3:49 PM EST, 5 hours 2 minutes before
NYZ036-037-046-057-062-PAZ040-048-080400-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - HIGH WIND WARNING/WIND ADVISORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
348 PM EST FRI NOV 8 1996

...HIGH WIND WARNINGS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED...
...WIND ADVISORIES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED...

THE COLD FRONT AND A WAVE OF LOW PRESSURE THAT BROUGHT STRONG GUSTY
WINDS AND SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA IS MOVING EAST VERY SLOWLY.
THE STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE WELL AHEAD OF THE FRONT AND WILL NO LONGER
AFFECT CENTRAL NEW YORK AND EXTREME NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

THEREFORE...THE HIGH WIND WARNING FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND WIND
ADVISORY FOR NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA HAVE BEEN CANCELLED.

THIS WILL BE THE LAST STATEMENT ON THE HIGH LWIND SITUATION.  STAY TUNED
TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL NEWS MEDIA FOR STATEMENTS AND
WARNINGS FOR FLOODING.

LOMBARDY
Local storm report, Nov 8, 5:03 PM EST, 3 hours 48 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 8, 8:51 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMCayuga, Onondaga6 hr
Nov 8, 8:51 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMChemung, Schuyler, Steuben6 hr
Nov 9, 12:57 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMDelaware5 hr
Nov 9, 1:42 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMOtsego4 hr
Nov 9, 1:42 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMSullivan4 hr
Nov 9, 5:59 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMDelaware, Sullivan3 hr
Nov 9, 9:21 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMDelaware, Sullivan6 hr
Nov 9, 12:13 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMLackawanna, Luzerne3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 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.