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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Binghamton, NY

January 9, 1998Otsego County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 9, 1998, 2:27 PM EST for Otsego County, New York. It was in force for 4 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 9, 1998, 2:27 PM EST (19:27 UTC)
Expired
Jan 9, 1998, 6:30 PM EST
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Otsego County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 99 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 1998-01-09Temperature 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 1998-01-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 225 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
398 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
225 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
266 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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 9, 1:57 PM EST, 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 1:57 PM EST, 30 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 9, 11:37 AM EST, 2 hours 50 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NEW YORK
1237 PM EDT FRI JAN 09 1998

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

1235 PM    CHOCONUT CENTER           NY   .75 INCH HAIL
01/09/98   BROOME                         ALSO PEA SIZE HAIL
                                          COVERING THE GROUND
                                          REPORTED AT WBNG-TV IN
                                          JOHNSON CITY.
Local storm report, Jan 9, 11:43 AM EST, 2 hours 44 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NEW YORK
1243 PM EDT FRI JAN 09 1998

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

1235 PM    CHOCONUT CENTER           NY   .75 INCH HAIL
01/09/98   BROOME                         ALSO PEA SIZE HAIL
                                          COVERING THE GROUND
                                          REPORTED AT WBNG-TV IN
                                          JOHNSON CITY.

1242 PM    CASTLE CREEK              NY   1 INCH HAIL
01/09/98   BROOME                         ONE INCH DIAMETER HAIL
                                          REPORTED ON KNAPP ROAD.
Local storm report, Jan 9, 1:45 PM EST, 42 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 8, 7:49 PM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMTioga4 hr
Jan 9, 11:39 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMBroome66 min
Jan 9, 11:47 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango58 min
Jan 9, 12:49 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSullivan56 min
Jan 9, 12:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOtsego67 min
Jan 9, 1:27 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMDelaware63 min
Jan 9, 12:36 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMPike69 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998

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.