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Flash Flood Watch 6, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood watch at Jul 8, 2011, 2:47 PM EDT for Sullivan County, New York; 5 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 8, 2011, 2:47 PM EDT (18:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2011, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Sullivan County, NY, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1141 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 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 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 Jul 8, 1:54 PM EDT, 53 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 8, 1:54 PM EDT, 53 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 154 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011 .SYNOPSIS... A STALLED COLD FRONT OVER PENNSYLVANIA WILL BE THE FOCUS FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY...WITH THE BEST CHANCE FOR STORMS OVER NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. HIGH PRESSURE WITH DRIER AIR WILL MOVE IN AND BRING FAIR WEATHER TO THE AREA FOR THE WEEKEND. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 PM THIS EVENING/... OLD COLD FNT BASICALLY STALLLED OVER ERN PA WITH CONV CONTG TO RIDE NEWRD ALONG THE BNDRY. UPR WV PASSING IN THE WLY ALNG WITH HTG WILL HELP TRIGGER CONV...WITH THE BEST CHANCE TODAY OVER THE XTRM SE PART OF THE FCST AREA. MID LVL WINDS DO FAVOR STORMS TO KEEP MVG...BUT WITH THE STALLED BNDRY...TRAINING OF CELLS PSBL. PWATS OVER NE PA ARE FCSTD TO BE NEAR 1.50 INCHES SO SOME FLOODING IN AREAS OF TRAINING CELLS CERTAINLY PSBL. GOOD AMT OF CONV DEBRIS CLDS AT THE MID AND UPR LVLS SHD LIMIT HTG AND KEEP TEMPS DOWN SOME TODAY. WIND FIELDS ARE UNREMARKABLE AND CAPES SIMPLY NOT ALL THAT HIGH SO CHANCE FOR SVR SEEMS TO BE LOW. && .SHORT TERM /6 PM THIS EVENING THROUGH SUNDAY/... LOOKS TO BE A WRM AND DRY WEEKEND AS HIGH PRES NORTH OF THE LAKES BLDS IN SAT. JUST A CHANCE OF SOME EARLY MRNG PCPN OVER THE XTRM SE...OTRW SHR TERM PD SHD BE PCPN FREE. AS THE CANADIAN MARITIME LOW DEEPENS ONCE AGAIN...SFC HIPRES HOLDS AND HGTS BLD OVER THE LAKES. NAM DOES SHOW SOME VERY WEAK WVS PASSING ON SUN...BUT THRESHOLD FOR PCPN DOES NOT APPEAR HI ENUF FOR INCLUSION IN THE FCST. TEMPS WERE ADJUSTED FROM THE BLENDED MOS GUID...BUT ARE VERY CLOSE TO THE CRNT FCST. SIGNIFICAT WRMG IS XPCTD...ESP ON SUNDAY WEAR TEMPSCOULD PUSH 90 SOMEPLACES. && .LONG TERM /MONDAY NIGHT THROUGH FRIDAY/... DEVIATED LTL FROM HPC GUIDANCE WHICH LOOKED FINE. ZONAL FLOW ALOFT WILL GRADUALLY BCM MORE NWLY WITH AMPLIFICATION OF AN UPR TROF OVER QUEBEC EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL FORCE A CDFNT ACRS THE RGN ON MON NGT WITH CHC FOR SCT SHRA/TSRA MON/MON NGT SPCLY ACRS CNTRL NY. FNT MAY BE LINGERING ACRS FAR SE ZONES BY 12Z TUE SO REATAINED LOW CHC POPS THERE FOR EARLY TUE. OTRW HI PRES FOLLOWING THIS FRONT WILL BRING IN COOLER AND DRIER AIR WITH MAXES IN THE U70S TO 80 WITH A NICE STRETCH OF SUMMER WX ON TAP FOR MID TO LATE NXT WEEK. && .AVIATION /18Z FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... AT SYR/RME...VFR WILL PREVAIL THRU 18Z SAT. AT AVP...XPCT SHRA/TSRA THIS AFTN INTO THE EARLY EVNG HRS WITH MVFR. ACRS THE SRN TIER AT ITH/ELM/BGM WE SHUD SEE SCT TSRA BUT CONFIDENCE OF OCCURENCE NOT GREAT ENUF TO PUT IN THE TAFS...SO PLAYED A CB GROUP THERE THIS AFTN. GREATER CVRG OF SHRA/TSRA WILL BE OVER PA BUT WE WILL HAVE TO MONITOR FOR POTNL OF SCT DVLPMNT ALONG THE CDFNT ACRS CNTRL NY LATE THIS AFTN AND EARLY EVNG. LATER TNGT...CLDS WILL DCRS FROM NW TO SE. TUFF CALL FOR FOG AT ELM AS MUCH DRIER BL AIR WILL BE WORKING BEHIND THE FNT...REACHING ELM ARND 06Z. FOR NOW WILL PLAY MVFR RESTRICTIONS THERE TWDS DAYBREAK...BUT LOW CONFIDENCE. VFR ALL SITES TMRW. WINDS THIS AFTN AND TNGT L&V BUT TRENDING TWDS LGT NRLY...AND NWLY ON SAT ARND 10 KTS. OUTLOOK... FRIDAY NIGHT THRU SUNDAY NIGHT...MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS WITH LCL IFR POSSIBLE IN PATCHY VALLEY FOG...ESPECIALLY AT ELM EACH MORNING. MON...SFC COLD FRNT WL PRODUCE SCT SHOWERS/STORMS WITH MVFR CONDITIONS POSSIBLE MONDAY AFTN/NGT. LOW CLDS WITH PATCHY MVFR LATE MON NGT. TUE/WED...VFR. POTNL FOR VLY FOG AT ELM LATE AT NGT. && .BGM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PA...NONE. NY...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...DGM NEAR TERM...DGM SHORT TERM...DGM
Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 8, 9:40 AM EDT, 5 hours 7 minutes before
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</html>In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 8, 2:14 PM EDT, 33 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
214 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011
NYZ009-018-036-037-081900-
MADISON NY-ONEIDA NY-ONONDAGA NY-
214 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN ONONDAGA...
NORTHWESTERN MADISON AND WEST CENTRAL ONEIDA COUNTIES...
* AT 209 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR NORTH SYRACUSE...AND
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 MPH.
* THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
DE WITT AT 220 PM EDT...
NORTH SYRACUSE AND EAST SYRACUSE AT 225 PM EDT...
FAYETTEVILLE AT 240 PM EDT...
CICERO AT 245 PM EDT...
MINOA AT 250 PM EDT...
BRIDGEPORT AND LOWER SOUTH BAY AT 300 PM EDT...
IF ON OR NEAR ONEIDA LAKE...SEEK SHELTER NOW. GET OUT OF THE WATER
AND MOVE INDOORS OR INSIDE A VEHICLE.
LAT...LON 4314 7565 4297 7618 4312 7631 4324 7612
4321 7608 4321 7604 4319 7601 4319 7596
4316 7592 4316 7589 4332 7587 4333 7589
4338 7586
MSEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 8, 12:40 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Sullivan | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 1:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Sullivan | 34 min |
| Jul 8, 4:29 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Cortland | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 6:12 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Otsego | 48 min |
| Jul 8, 2:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Onondaga | 46 min |
| Jul 8, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Oneida | 56 min |
| Jul 8, 3:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida, Onondaga | 51 min |
| Jul 8, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Sullivan | 62 min |
| Jul 8, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 25 min |
| Jul 8, 4:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Oneida | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 5:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Broome | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:25 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Onondaga | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 5:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Sullivan | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 6:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Otsego | 3 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Luzerne | 39 min |
| Jul 7, 10:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Luzerne | 50 min |
| Jul 8, 12:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Bradford | 78 min |
| Jul 8, 2:38 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Luzerne, Wyoming | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 3:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Susquehanna, Wyoming | 45 min |
| Jul 8, 3:14 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Luzerne, Wyoming | 91 min |
| Jul 8, 3:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Susquehanna | 67 min |
| Jul 8, 3:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Susquehanna, Wyoming | 64 min |
| Jul 8, 3:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Lackawanna, Wayne | 3 hr |
| Jul 8, 4:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Bradford | 58 min |
| Jul 8, 4:57 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Bradford | 3 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.