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Flash Flood Warning 44, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 2, 2013, 12:56 AM EDT for Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 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
- Sep 2, 2013, 12:56 AM EDT (04:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2013, 5:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Luzerne County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:56 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 00:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 245 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
- 1022 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 767 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 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 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 flash flood warning went out at Sep 1, 9:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 1, 9:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Sep 1, 11:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Madison | 59 min |
| Sep 2, 4:15 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Chenango, Otsego | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 7:19 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Tompkins | 26 min |
| Sep 2, 7:22 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Cortland | 38 min |
| Sep 2, 7:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Cortland | 46 min |
| Sep 2, 8:15 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Schuyler, Seneca, Tompkins | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 8:47 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Schuyler, Seneca, Tompkins | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 9:18 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Broome, Chenango | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 1:13 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Delaware | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 1:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware, Sullivan | 41 min |
| Sep 2, 2:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Cayuga | 28 min |
| Sep 2, 2:27 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Delaware | 63 min |
| Sep 2, 2:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga | 59 min |
| Sep 2, 2:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Seneca | 31 min |
| Sep 2, 3:31 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Delaware | 44 min |
| Sep 2, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Sullivan | 47 min |
| Sep 2, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Onondaga | 33 min |
| Sep 2, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida, Onondaga | 61 min |
| Sep 2, 4:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga | 40 min |
| Sep 2, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Sullivan | 51 min |
| Sep 2, 4:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 62 min |
| Sep 2, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga | 62 min |
| Sep 2, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga, Tompkins | 36 min |
| Sep 2, 5:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Madison, Oneida, Onondaga | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Oneida | 36 min |
| Sep 2, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Otsego | 60 min |
| Sep 2, 6:39 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Chenango, Madison, Otsego | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Delaware, Otsego | 65 min |
| Sep 2, 7:08 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Chenango, Otsego | 4 hr |
| Sep 2, 7:31 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Chenango, Delaware, Otsego | 3 hr |
| Sep 2, 12:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Wyoming | 41 min |
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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.