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Flash Flood Warning 15, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 13, 1998Schuyler County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 13, 1998, 5:23 PM EDT for Schuyler 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
Jun 13, 1998, 5:23 PM EDT (21:23 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1998, 9:20 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Schuyler County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 161 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 12:00Z on 1998-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 69 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 47 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
69 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-75 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
773 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 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 Jun 13, 2:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 13, 2:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 23 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
200 PM EDT SAT JUN 13 1998

SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS CYCLONIC FLOW CONTINUING OVR THE FA WITH LOTS
OF CONVECTION DEVELOPING OVR OH...W NY/PA THIS AFTERNOON. LOCALLY...LI
HAVE DIPPED TO -4 ACROSS THE RGN. SOME BINOVC ARE OCCURRING OVR THE W
HALF OF THE FA. FURTHER E...PCPN IS SLOWLY MOVING E AND OUT OF THE
AREA. ANOTHER BATCH OF SHOWERS IS MOVING NE OUT OF CENTRAL PA AND WILL
AFFECT THE EXTREME W PORTIONS OF THE FA NOW. WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE TO
KEEP AN EYE ON THE CONVECTION TO THE W. LIGHTNING DATA SHOWS THE LINE
OVR W PA HAS BECOME QUITE ACTIVE OVER THE LAST FEW HOURS.

UPPER LVL LOW REMAINS NEARLY STATIONARY DURING THE NEXT 48 HRS AND THEN
EVENTUALLY MOVES BACK W AND BECOMES ABSORBED IN THE LOW MOVING ESE OUT
OF THE CENTRAL GRTLKS. LACK OF CAA ALOFT WILL HELP TO PREVENT PCPN FM
BECOMING OVER ACTIVE AS CYCLONIC FLOW...ABUNDANT MSTR...AND WARM AIR
OVER THE RGN REMAINS IN PLACE.  WILL STILL KEEP A CHC OF SHOWERS AND
TSTMS THROUGH THE PERIOD.

RIVERS AND STREAMS STILL APPEAR TO BE OKAY FOR HANDLING ANY ADDITIONAL
PCPN. WILKES BARRE GAGE IS EXPECTED TO REACH CRITICAL STAGE MONDAY.
WILL NOT BE ISSUING ANY FLOOD WATCHfES AT THIS TIME.

MOS TEMPS LOOK GOOD SO WILL STAY CLOSE TO THEM.

.BGM...NONE.

LOMBARDY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 6:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMSusquehanna4 hr
Jun 13, 7:08 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMBradford4 hr

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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.