Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2009
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 24, 2009, 3:17 PM EDT for Lackawanna County, Luzerne County, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. 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
- May 24, 2009, 3:17 PM EDT (19:17 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2009, 6:37 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:18 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 28 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -132 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 740 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 27 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.6
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 May 23, 7:40 PM EDT, 19 hours 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 7:40 PM EDT, 19 hours 37 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 4:33 PM EDT, 22 hours 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 433 PM EDT SAT MAY 23 2009 NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055-056-242045- NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-STEUBEN- SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND-CHENANGO- OTSEGO-TIOGA-BROOME- 433 PM EDT SAT MAY 23 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ...A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE FROM LATE AFTERNOON INTO THE EVENING... ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS BEFORE ENDING BY LATE EVENING. THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL. THE BEST CHANCE FOR STRONG TO SEVERE STORMS WILL BE MAINLY EAST AND SOUTH OF THE FINGER LAKES REGION AND ACROSS THE NORTHERN TIER OF EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATER UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION. YOU CAN ALSO VISIT OUR INTERNET WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/BGM FOR THE LATEST. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... FULL AREA WIDE SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER...SKYWARN ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED LOCALLY IN A FEW COUNTIES THIS EVENING. NYZ057-062-PAZ038>040-043-044-047-048-072-242045- DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-BRADFORD-SUSQUEHANNA-NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING- LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE- 433 PM EDT SAT MAY 23 2009 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT. ...A FEW STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE INTO THE EVENING... THE POTENTIAL EXISTS FOR A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO FORM AND PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL THIS EVENING. THE BEST CHANCE FOR STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE MAINLY FROM THE POCONOS TO CATSKILLS. ALL THE THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WILL TAPER OFF AFTER SUNSET. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. ...STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE SUNDAY AFTERNOON... A COLD FRONT WILL DROP SOUTH INTO PENNSYLVANIA AND THE SOUTHERN CATSKILLS SUNDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY THIS FRONT...A FEW OF WHICH COULD CONTAIN DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATER UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION. YOU CAN ALSO VISIT OUR INTERNET WEB SITE AT WEATHER.GOV/BGM FOR THE LATEST. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA AND THE CATSKILLS. DJN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 10:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 34 min |
| May 24, 2:55 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Delaware | 3 hr |
| May 24, 2:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Susquehanna, Wayne | 3 hr |
| May 24, 1:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Lackawanna, Luzerne | 48 min |
| May 24, 1:18 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Lackawanna, Luzerne | 46 min |
| May 24, 2:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Lackawanna, Luzerne | 56 min |
| May 24, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Bradford | 55 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.