Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Watches in 2015
Flash Flood Watch 3, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood watch at Jun 14, 2015, 3:22 PM EDT for 17 counties in New York; 7 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jun 14, 2015, 4:34 PM EDT. It was in force for 11 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2015, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 14, 2015, 4:34 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2015, 4:03 AM EDT
- In force
- 11 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Flood severity
- None
All 24 counties
Broome County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Yates County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:21 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 186 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
- 1224 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -20 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 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 Jun 14, 2:45 PM EDT, 37 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 14, 2:45 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 245 PM EDT SUN JUN 14 2015 .SYNOPSIS... A WARM FRONT WILL SLOWLY MOVE NORTHEAST INTO OUR AREA THIS AFTERNOON...AND BECOME STATIONARY OVER THE REGION THROUGH TUESDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LIKELY THROUGH TUESDAY. HEAVY RAINFALL IS POSSIBLE TODAY AND TONIGHT. && .NEAR TERM /UNTIL 6 AM MONDAY MORNING/... 1215 PM EDT UPDATE... MAIN CONCERN FOR TODAY IS TRAINING AND FLASH FLOODING... WARM FRONT CONTINUES TO SLOWLY LIFT NORTH THIS AFTERNOON AND WEAK CONVECTION THAT DEVELOPED EARLIER THIS MORNING HAS WEAKENED AND A FEW SPRINKLES ARE LEFT. EXPECT SHOWERS TO RE-DEVELOP ALONG THE WARM FRONT AND BECOME WIDESPREAD LATER THIS AFTERNOON AS A SUBTLE SHORTWAVE MOVES OVER THE AREA. THE MAIN THREAT FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT CONTINUES TO BE HEAVY RAIN... THE CONCERN FOR SEVERE STORMS ARE BECOMING LESS. THE UPPR LVL JET WILL STRENGTHEN THIS AFTERNOON AND WE WILL BE WITHIN THE RIGHT ENTRANCE REGION OF THE UPPR LVL JET. THE COMBINATION OF THE POSITION OF THE FRONTAL BOUNDARY... MID LVL FORCING... AND THE THE UPPR JET WILL CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT FAVORABLE FOR HEAVY RAINFALL. PWAT VALUES ARE WELL ABOVE THE NORM... 150 PERCENT ABOVE... THUS ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR HEAVY RAIN. EXPECT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO MOVE THROUGH IN TWO ROUNDS. THE FIRST ROUND OF SHOWERS TO DEVELOP AFTER 18Z THEN... THEN A SECOND ROUND OF SHOWERS STARTING AROUND 6Z TONIGHT. CONFIDENCE IS NOT QUITE HIGH ENOUGH ATTM TO ISSUE A WATCH. WILL CLOSELY MONITOR FIRST ROUND OF SHOWERS... AND MAY ISSUE A WATCH THIS EVENING IF WARRANTED. && .SHORT TERM /6 AM MONDAY MORNING THROUGH WEDNESDAY/... 245 PM EDT UPDATE.. CONVECTION FROM SUNDAY NIGHT WILL BE DRIFTING OFF TO THE EAST AND ACTIVITY SHOULD BE WINDING DOWN BY MONDAY EVENING. FOR THE MOST PART MONDAY AFTERNOON SHOULD STILL BE RELATIVELY DRY... INSTABILITY WILL BE PRESENT DURING THE AFTERNOON.. THUS WE COULD SEE THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE AFTERNOON. BY LATE MONDAY NIGHT WE TRANSITION INTO A QUASI-ZONAL FLOW ALOFT AND THEN MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY THE FORECAST BECOMES MESSY. THERE ARE HINTS AT A RESIDUAL MCS MOVING ACROSS THE CWA AND SLOWLY MOVING ACROSS THE AREA TUES AFTERNOON. HIGH PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO BUILD OVER THE REGION ON WED... AND IT APPEARS IT MAY BE THE ONLY DRY DAY THIS WEEK. NOTHING UNUSUAL ASSOCIATED WITH TEMPERATURES FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR. && .LONG TERM /WEDNESDAY NIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY/... ACTIVE PATTERN CONTINUES WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY WITH CLUSTERS OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY DURING THAT PERIOD IN ASSOCIATION WITH A SLOWLY-MOVING EAST-WEST ORIENTED FRONTAL SYSTEM OVER THE NORTHERN MID-ATLANTIC. LONGER RANGE MODELS ARE IN SOME AGREEMENT INDICATING THAT SOME SLIGHTLY DRY AND COOLER AIR MAY BUILD IN FOR FRIDAY INTO SATURDAY AND HAVE LOWERED POPS DURING THAT PERIOD. UNSETTLED WEATHER LIKELY TO RETURN BY SUNDAY INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. TEMPERATURES WILL AVERAGE AT LEAST A FEW DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH THE PERIOD WITH BIGGEST POSITIVE DEPARTURES AT NIGHT. && .AVIATION /19Z SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY/... 18Z UPDATE... INCREASING MID LVL CLDS EARLY IN THE PERIOD BEFORE DEVELOPMENT OF SHRA/TSRA AS WARM FRONT CONTINUES TO APPROACH FROM THE SOUTHWEST. BEST CHC FOR TSRA LATE THIS AFTN WHERE GREATER INSTABILITY LOCATED FROM KELM...KITH...AND KAVP. INCLUDED CHC ALSO FOR KSYR EARLY GIVEN CURRENT STORMS TO THE WEST NEAR KROC. TSRA NOT OUT OF QUESTION AT KBGM, KRME BUT WILL HANDLE AS NEEDED DUE TO LOWER PROB. EARLY THIS EVENING...SHRA DEVELOPMENT WILL ADVANCE TO MOST IF NOT ALL TERMINALS IN VERY MOIST YET ONLY MARGINALLY UNSTABLE AIR MASS. EMBEDDED TSRA POSSIBLE BUT MAINLY SHRA. CIGS LOWERING WITH TIME OVERNIGHT TO FUEL ALT MVFR OR EVEN IFR. WINDS VARIABLE OR LIGHT SOUTHEAST TO SOUTH THROUGH THE PERIOD...VEERING LIGHT SW LATE TONIGHT TO WEST MON AM. .OUTLOOK... MON-TUE...POSSIBLE RESTRICTIONS IN SHRA AND TSRA. TUE NGT-WED...VFR EXCEPT FOR MORNING VALLEY FOG ESPECIALLY KELM. WED NGT-FRI...CHANCE OF SHRA-TSRA AND ASSOCIATED RESTRICTIONS. && .BGM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... PA...NONE. NY...NONE. && SYNOPSIS...KAH NEAR TERM...KAH SHORT TERM...KAH LONG TERM...JAB/MSE AVIATION...JML
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 14, 3:38 AM EDT, 11 hours 44 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 3:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Schuyler, Seneca, Yates | 64 min |
| Jun 14, 4:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Schuyler, Seneca, Yates | 12 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Schuyler, Seneca, Tioga, Tompkins | 9 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:53 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Steuben, Yates | 3 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Tioga | 54 min |
| Jun 14, 6:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Broome, Chemung, Tioga | 9 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Steuben, Yates | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 7:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Luzerne | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in New York, 2015Flash Flood Watches in Pennsylvania, 2015Every flash flood watch in 2015
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.