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Flash Flood Warning 62, NWS Binghamton, NY

December 13, 1996Luzerne County, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 13, 1996, 3:59 PM EST for Luzerne County, Wyoming 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
Dec 13, 1996, 3:59 PM EST (20:59 UTC)
Expired
Dec 13, 1996, 7:00 PM EST
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Luzerne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:03 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

Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD (KAPG), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 209 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, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 1996-12-13Temperature 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 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Phillips Aaf/Abe, MD at 12:00Z on 1996-12-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 189 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
519 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
189 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 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
Dec 13, 2:56 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMBroome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga3 hr
Dec 13, 3:09 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMMadison, Oneida3 hr
Dec 13, 2:56 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMBradford3 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.