Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Watches in 2011
Flash Flood Watch 4, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood watch at May 23, 2011, 11:03 PM EDT for Chemung County, Steuben County, Tioga County, New York; Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 23, 2011, 11:03 PM EDT (03:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2011, 3:23 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Chemung County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Bradford County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:04 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 191 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1252 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 40 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 226 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood watch 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 watch went out at May 23, 7:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 23, 7:27 PM EDT, 3 hours 36 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 23, 3:41 PM EDT, 7 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 341 PM EDT MON MAY 23 2011 NYZ009-016>018-025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ039-040-043-044- 047-048-072-241945- NORTHERN ONEIDA-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-TOMPKINS-MADISON- SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND-CHENANGO-OTSEGO-TIOGA-BROOME-DELAWARE- SULLIVAN-SUSQUEHANNA-NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE- SOUTHERN WAYNE- 341 PM EDT MON MAY 23 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NYZ015-022>024-PAZ038-241945- YATES-STEUBEN-SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-BRADFORD- 341 PM EDT MON MAY 23 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING OVER THE UPPER MIDWEST AND MICHIGAN THIS AFTERNOON MAY MOVE INTO THE REGION LATER THIS EVENING. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SEVERE WEATHER WITH THESE STORMS SHOULD THEY MOVE INTO THE REGION. THE MAIN THREAT WOULD BE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 23, 11:07 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Steuben | 53 min |
| May 23, 11:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Schuyler, Steuben | 51 min |
| May 24, 12:26 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Steuben | 3 hr |
| May 24, 12:39 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Steuben | 51 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.