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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Binghamton, NY
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.
- 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
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 9, 1:57 PM EST, 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 9, 1:57 PM EST, 30 minutes before
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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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Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 8, 7:49 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Tioga | 4 hr |
| Jan 9, 11:39 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome | 66 min |
| Jan 9, 11:47 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango | 58 min |
| Jan 9, 12:49 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 56 min |
| Jan 9, 12:53 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 67 min |
| Jan 9, 1:27 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 63 min |
| Jan 9, 12:36 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Pike | 69 min |
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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.