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Flood Watch 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

January 27, 2014Cayuga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flood watch at Jan 27, 2014, 2:24 PM EST for Cayuga County, New York. It was in force for 3 days.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jan 27, 2014, 2:24 PM EST (19:24 UTC)
Expired
Jan 30, 2014, 2:56 PM EST
In force
3 days
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Flood severity
None

County Cayuga County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:27 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 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 226 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2014-01-27Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2014-01-27The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 688 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1255 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
100 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
688 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
786 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jan 27, 3:09 AM ESTLake Effect Snow WarningBGMOneida23 hr
Jan 27, 5:47 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMCayuga, Onondaga, Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Yates43 min
Jan 27, 7:44 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBroome, Chenango, Delaware, Madison, Otsego, Tioga2 hr
Jan 27, 9:54 AM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBGMBroome, Delaware, Otsego, Sullivan111 min
Jan 27, 1:05 PM ESTLake Effect Snow AdvisoryBGMOneida14 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.