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Special Weather Statement, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this special weather statement at May 31, 2015, 8:13 PM EDT for Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 92 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 31, 2015, 8:13 PM EDT (00:13 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2015, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
County Pike County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 135 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:12 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
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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
- 168 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 686 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 7 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at May 31, 4:02 PM EDT, 4 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 31, 4:02 PM EDT, 4 hours 11 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 31, 1:08 PM EDT, 7 hours 5 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 108 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 2015 NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-PAZ038>040-043-011715- NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-STEUBEN- SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND-CHENANGO- OTSEGO-TIOGA-BROOME-DELAWARE-BRADFORD-SUSQUEHANNA-NORTHERN WAYNE- WYOMING- 108 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 2015 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH THE AREA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. SOME MAY CONTAIN LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WHICH COULD LEAD TO FLOODING ISSUES IN URBAN AND OTHER POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY BRING ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN TO THE AREA MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT CONTINUING THE THREAT FOR FLOOD PROBLEMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. NYZ062-PAZ044-047-048-072-011715- SULLIVAN-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE-SOUTHERN WAYNE- 108 PM EDT SUN MAY 31 2015 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. FLASH FLOOD WATCH. A FEW THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON INTO EVENING COULD BRING EXCESSIVE RAINFALL THAT COULD CAUSE FLASH FLOODING AND LOCALLY STRONG DAMAGING WINDS. MORE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT WITH THE THREAT FOR ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAINFALL CONTINUING. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL MEDIA FOR THE LATEST UPDATES ON THIS SITUATION. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS MAY BRING ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN TO THE AREA MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT CONTINUING THE THREAT FOR FLOOD PROBLEMS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER SUCH AS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AMOUNTS OR STRONG WINDS.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 31, 5:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 31 minutes before
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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.