Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 36, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Nov 9, 1996, 12:13 AM EST for Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 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 9, 1996, 12:13 AM EST (05:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 9, 1996, 3:00 AM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 224 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 181 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 621 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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, 3 hours 58 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 8, 8:15 PM EST, 3 hours 58 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, 6:40 PM EST, 5 hours 33 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 8, 8:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga | 6 hr |
| Nov 8, 8:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben | 6 hr |
| Nov 8, 8:51 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Seneca | 6 hr |
| Nov 9, 12:57 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Delaware | 5 hr |
| Nov 9, 1:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Otsego | 4 hr |
| Nov 9, 1:42 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 4 hr |
| Nov 9, 5:59 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Delaware, Sullivan | 3 hr |
| Nov 9, 9:21 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Delaware, Sullivan | 6 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.