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Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 8, 1998Tompkins County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 1998, 1:38 PM EDT for Tompkins County, New York. 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
Jul 8, 1998, 1:38 PM EDT (17:38 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 1998, 4:40 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Tompkins County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 190 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 1998-07-08Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 474 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 1998-07-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
474 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
623 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 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 Jul 8, 8:55 AM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 8:55 AM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
855 AM EDT WED JUL 8 1998

HAVE MADE NO CHANGE TO CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE. BGM CWA PRECIP AMOUNT
OVERNIGHT WERE LOWER THAN ANTICIPATED /THATS OK WITH ME/ BUT MORE
PRECIP IS LIKELY THIS PM. BOTH ETA/NGM SHOW THE NEXT SHORTWAVE TO MOVE
ACROSS THE AREA THIS PM AND EVE. AT BGM THE SHORTWAVE IS PROGGED TO PASS
THRU BETWEEN 17 AND 21Z BUT THE SFC WINDS DONT GO AROUND TO THE WEST
UNTIL 08Z.

ETA MODEL QPF AMOUNTS FROM NOW UNTIL 04Z AT SYR ARE AN ADDITIONAL 0.40
INCH...0.80 INCH AT AVP THRU 00Z THU AND 0.18 INCH AT BGM THRU THIS
EVE. GIVEN OVERNIGHT RAINFALL AMOUNTS...WE SHOULD HAVE NO PROBLEMS WITH
THESE AMOUNTS EXCEPT FOR SOME POSSIBLE LOCALIZED FLASH FLOOING IN ANY
HEAVY DOWNPOURS.

SKIES SHOULD PARTIALLY CLEAR OVERNIGHT AFTER THE SFC LOW PASSES TO OUR
SOUTH AND EAST AND DRIER AIR BUILDS INTO AREA FROM A 1018 MB
HIGH LOCATED OVER THE GREAT LAKES AT 12Z THU.

.BGM...NONE.

KUHL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 9:27 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMSteuben3 hr
Jul 8, 1:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMTioga3 hr
Jul 8, 1:43 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMBroome, Chenango3 hr
Jul 8, 1:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMDelaware3 hr
Jul 8, 4:56 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMSteuben4 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.