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Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 26, 2004Delaware County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 26, 2004, 10:59 PM EDT for Delaware 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 outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 26, 2004, 10:59 PM EDT (02:59 UTC)
Expired
May 27, 2004, 2:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Delaware County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 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 00:00Z on 2004-05-27Temperature 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 00:00Z on 2004-05-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
644 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
57 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000
WGUS51 KBGM 270305
FFWBGM
NYC025-270600-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1059 PM EDT WED MAY 26 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS EXTENDED THE

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  DELAWARE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 200 AM EDT

* AT 1057 PM EDT...FLASH FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN NORTHERN DELAWARE
  COUNTY.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO STAMFORD...
  MERIDALE...MEREDITH...HOBART...FRANKLIN...EAST SIDNEY...EAST
  MEREDITH...DELHI...DAVENPORT AND BOVINA CENTER.

COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORT THAT NUMEROUS ROADS 
HAVE BEEN CLOSED AND WASHED OUT. THE FOLLOWING TOWNS HAVE BEEN 
HARDEST HIT...STAMFORD...MEREDITH...DELHI...AND KORTRIGHT.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE 
DANGERS OF FLOODING. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED ACT QUICKLY. MOVE 
UP TO HIGHER GROUND TO ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS.

LAT...LON 4237 7517 4231 7530 4220 7485 4235 7449
          4250 7475 4246 7497

$$

MJ

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 26, 8:03 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMDelaware3 hr
May 26, 8:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango40 min

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.