Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Watches in 2016
Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood watch at Jul 28, 2016, 2:19 PM EDT for 4 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jul 28, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 28, 2016, 2:19 PM EDT (18:19 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jul 28, 2016, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Jul 29, 2016, 3:48 AM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Wayne County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -214 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1328 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 5:33 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Lackawanna | 3 hr |
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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.