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Flash Flood Watch 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 23, 20135 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood watch at Jun 23, 2013, 3:44 PM EDT for 5 counties in New York. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 23, 2013, 3:44 PM EDT (19:44 UTC)
Expired: Jun 23, 2013, 7:16 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Flood severity: None

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Seneca County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 64 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -217 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1012 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 139 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Jun 23, 1:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 1:50 PM EDT, 1 hour 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 9:47 AM EDT, 5 hours 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 1:31 PM EDT, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 2:06 PM EDT, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 23, 3:28 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
328 PM EDT SUN JUN 23 2013

NYZ036-037-232030-
MADISON NY-ONEIDA NY-
328 PM EDT SUN JUN 23 2013

...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL ONEIDA AND
SOUTHERN MADISON COUNTIES...

* AT 327 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...
  STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  THESE STORMS WERE
  LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WATERVILLE TO STOCKBRIDGE TO
  ERIEVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  HAMILTON AT 355 PM EDT...

THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE
HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.

LAT...LON 4303 7521 4288 7520 4287 7525 4279 7525
      4277 7528 4275 7529 4274 7532 4275 7545
      4274 7561 4276 7589 4285 7590 4295 7569
      4305 7539

MLJ

Special weather statement, Jun 23, 3:29 PM EDT, 15 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
329 PM EDT SUN JUN 23 2013

NYZ016>018-044-232030-
CAYUGA NY-CORTLAND NY-ONONDAGA NY-SENECA NY-
329 PM EDT SUN JUN 23 2013

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN CORTLAND...SENECA...
SOUTHERN CAYUGA AND SOUTHWESTERN ONONDAGA COUNTIES...

* AT 323 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  STRONG THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR UNION SPRINGS...
  AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MAPLETON AT 340 PM EDT...
  AUBURN AT 345 PM EDT...
  WYCKOFF AT 350 PM EDT...
  OWASCO AND MORAVIA AT 400 PM EDT...
  NILES AND SKANEATELES AT 410 PM EDT...

THIS STORM WILL PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS. A
FEW TREES MAY COME DOWN IN AREAS WITH STRONGEST WINDS.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.

LAT...LON 4272 7622 4262 7677 4285 7681 4294 7697
      4301 7697 4302 7696 4303 7687 4303 7650
      4304 7650 4305 7649

MSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 23, 1:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Seneca	44 min
Jun 23, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Onondaga	54 min
Jun 23, 2:48 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca	3 hr
Jun 23, 3:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Madison	62 min
Jun 23, 3:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cayuga	61 min
Jun 23, 3:42 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Oneida	3 hr
Jun 23, 4:47 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Cayuga, Schuyler, Seneca, Tompkins	3 hr
Jun 23, 7:29 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.