Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2015
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 14, 2015, 7:50 PM EDT for Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 14, 2015, 7:50 PM EDT (23:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2015, 10:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Bradford County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:53 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 230 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
- 63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
957
WGUS51 KBGM 142350
FFWBGM
PAC015-150245-
/O.NEW.KBGM.FF.W.0021.150714T2350Z-150715T0245Z/
/00000.0.ER.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.000000T0000Z.OO/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
750 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 2015
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
BRADFORD COUNTY IN NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA...
* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT
* AT 748 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING
HEAVY RAIN ACROSS THE WARNED AREA. SEVERAL ROUNDS OF THUNDERSTORMS
ARE POSSIBLE THIS EVENING.
* SOME LOCATIONS THAT WILL EXPERIENCE FLOODING INCLUDE...
CHEMUNG...SAYRE...ATHENS...TOWANDA...CANTON...TROY...WYALUSING...
RIDGEBURY...WYSOX...ULSTER...LITCHFIELD...NORTH TOWANDA...SOUTH
WAVERLY...WINDHAM...HERRICK...ROME...LACEYVILLE...NEW ALBANY...LE
RAYSVILLE AND OVERTON.
RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1 TO 3 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA.
RAPID FLOODING OF STREAMS...CREEKS...URBAN...AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS
IS LIKELY IN AND NEAR THESE LOCATIONS.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODING.
&&
LAT...LON 4200 7615 4165 7612 4164 7620 4154 7622
4160 7687 4200 7692
$$
TACThe office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BGM | Bradford, Susquehanna | 10 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.