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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 1, 2009, 6:37 PM EDT for Chemung County, New York; Bradford County, Pennsylvania. 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 counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2009, 6:37 PM EDT (22:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2009, 8:41 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Chemung County, NY, Bradford County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 200 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
- 192 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 480 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 1, 3:19 PM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 1, 3:19 PM EDT, 3 hours 18 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Jul 1, 1:04 PM EDT, 5 hours 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 104 PM EDT WED JUL 1 2009 NYZ015>017-011800- CAYUGA NY-SENECA NY-YATES NY- 104 PM EDT WED JUL 1 2009 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN YATES...SENECA AND WEST CENTRAL CAYUGA COUNTIES... * AT 103 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR KENDAIA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. * THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WILLARD AND LODI AT 110 PM EDT... KENDAIA AND OVID AT 120 PM EDT... ROMULUS AND BORDER CITY AT 130 PM EDT... SHELDRAKE SPGS AT 140 PM EDT... EAST VARICK AT 150 PM EDT... FAYETTE AND WATERLOO AT 155 PM EDT... ANTOHER STRONG STORM WAS LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN SENACA COUNTY MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH. BOTH OF THESE STORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PEA SIZED HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. MSE
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Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 8:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Madison, Onondaga | 2 hr |
| Jul 1, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 59 min |
| Jul 1, 2:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Sullivan | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 3:20 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Yates | 115 min |
| Jul 1, 6:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Chemung | 114 min |
| Jul 1, 7:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Oneida | 3 hr |
| Jul 1, 7:55 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Oneida | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2009Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2009Every flash flood warning in 2009
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.