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Areal Flood Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

March 6, 2011Delaware County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this areal flood warning at Mar 6, 2011, 3:50 PM EST for Delaware County, New York. It was in force for 12 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
Mar 6, 2011, 3:50 PM EST (20:50 UTC)
Expired
Mar 7, 2011, 3:45 AM EST
In force
12 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Delaware County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 108 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 2011-03-06Temperature 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 12:00Z on 2011-03-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 484 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
510 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
484 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
653 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this areal 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 areal flood warning went out at Mar 6, 3:32 PM EST, 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 6, 3:32 PM EST, 18 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 6, 4:11 AM ESTWinter Storm WarningBGMBroome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Madison and 9 more31 hr
Mar 6, 4:11 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryBGMBroome, Delaware, Sullivan31 hr
Mar 6, 6:40 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMCortland13 hr
Mar 6, 6:40 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMDelaware34 hr
Mar 6, 6:40 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMChenango, Delaware10 hr
Mar 6, 6:40 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMBroome44 hr
Mar 6, 6:40 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMBroome14 hr
Mar 6, 6:40 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMBroome, Tioga34 hr
Mar 6, 6:40 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMTioga52 hr
Mar 6, 6:40 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMChenango13 hr
Mar 6, 6:40 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMChenango14 hr
Mar 6, 6:40 AM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMBroome14 hr
Mar 6, 8:00 AM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMOneida6 hr
Mar 6, 4:02 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMBroome, Delaware, Sullivan3 hr
Mar 6, 4:19 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMDelaware, Sullivan18 hr
Mar 6, 11:53 AM ESTFlash Flood WarningBGMWyoming6 hr
Mar 6, 3:22 PM ESTAreal Flood WarningBGMLackawanna12 hr
Mar 6, 5:15 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMBradford10 hr
Mar 6, 5:15 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMWyoming10 hr
Mar 6, 5:15 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningBGMLuzerne17 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.