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Flash Flood Watch 7, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood watch at Aug 14, 2011, 1:04 PM EDT for Chemung County, Steuben County, New York; Bradford County, Luzerne County, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 14, 2011, 1:04 PM EDT (17:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 14, 2011, 5:02 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Chemung County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:08 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 12:00Z, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 219 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
- 7058 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 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 Aug 14, 10:33 AM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 10:33 AM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 11:13 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Yates | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 12:30 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Cayuga | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 1:34 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Steuben | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 1:37 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Onondaga | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 3:47 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca | 3 hr |
| Aug 14, 2:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Bradford, Luzerne, Wyoming | 3 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Pennsylvania, 2011Flash Flood Watches in New York, 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.