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Flash Flood Watch 12, NWS Binghamton, NY

October 14, 20117 counties in New York; 6 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood watch at Oct 14, 2011, 12:10 PM EDT for 7 counties in New York; 6 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 14, 2011, 12:10 PM EDT (16:10 UTC)
Expired
Oct 14, 2011, 5:49 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Flood severity
None

Counties Broome County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:14 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 252 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-10-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 780 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-10-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 0 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
780 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-13 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
508 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
0 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 14, 9:28 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMDelaware, Sullivan3 hr
Oct 14, 3:38 PM EDTWind AdvisoryBGMCayuga, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Yates24 hr
Oct 14, 1:18 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMWayne27 min
Oct 14, 1:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMWayne44 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Watches in New York, 2011Flash Flood Watches in Pennsylvania, 2011Every flash flood watch in 2011

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.