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Flash Flood Warning 49, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 29, 2004Oneida County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 29, 2004, 2:30 PM EDT for Oneida County, New York. It was in force for 2 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
Aug 29, 2004, 2:30 PM EDT (18:30 UTC)
Expired
Aug 29, 2004, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Oneida County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 171 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 2004-08-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 378 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-08-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 58 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
378 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-57 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
639 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
58 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
1.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KBGM 291843 CCA
FFWBGM
NYC065-292030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING..CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
230 PM EDT SUN AUG 29 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WEST CENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 227 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  VERY HEAVY RAIN IN WEST CENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTY.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO CAMDEN...  
  MCCONNELLSVILLE AND BLOSSVALE. STREAMS AFFECTED INCLUDE HALL       
  BROOK...WEST BRANCH OF FISH CREEK...THE LITTLE RIVER.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE TO ONE AND A HALF INCHES ARE 
POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA.

LAT...LON 4323 7588 4322 7573 4339 7550 4345 7577

$$
GILT/NICOSIA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 29, 1:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOneida28 min
Aug 29, 1:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOneida63 min
Aug 29, 2:30 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMOneida30 min
Aug 29, 4:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSchuyler, Steuben26 min
Aug 29, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCayuga, Seneca65 min
Aug 29, 5:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOneida58 min
Aug 29, 5:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCortland, Onondaga39 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.