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Special Weather Statement, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 1, 2016Bradford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2016, 12:49 PM EDT for Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 26 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: Aug 1, 2016, 12:49 PM EDT (16:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2016, 1:15 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY

County Bradford County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 215 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 81 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -136 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 707 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 41 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

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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 Aug 1, 11:13 AM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 1, 11:13 AM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 1, 3:30 AM EDT, 9 hours 19 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Aug 1, 12:49 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1249 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2016

PAZ038-039-011715-
SUSQUEHANNA PA-BRADFORD PA-
1249 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2016

...LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL WILL AFFECT WEST CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA AND
EAST CENTRAL BRADFORD COUNTIES...

* AT 1248 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND
  THUNDERSTORMS CONTAINING LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL ACROSS PARTS OF
  WEST CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA AND EAST CENTRAL BRADFORD COUNTIES.

* THERE IS A POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINFALL...AND COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED
  FLOODING OF ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.

* LOCATIONS THAT WILL BE IMPACTED BY THE HEAVY RAINFALL INCLUDE...
  ROME...LE RAYSVILLE...FRIENDSVILLE...WARREN CENTER...BRUSHVILLE...
  RUSHVILLE...ORWELL...WEST WARREN...BIRCHARDVILLE...STEVENSVILLE AND
  MIDDLETOWN CENTER.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS.

&&

LAT...LON 4187 7635 4197 7618 4188 7596 4173 7613
TIME...MOT...LOC 1648Z 302DEG 12KT 4185 7617

JAB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 1:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Madison	31 min
Aug 1, 4:28 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Chemung, Tioga	2 hr
Aug 1, 6:54 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome	2 hr
Aug 1, 1:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Wyoming	26 min
Aug 1, 2:12 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Lackawanna	63 min
Aug 1, 3:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne	119 min
Aug 1, 3:41 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	BGM	Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Susquehanna, Wayne and 1 more	10 hr
Aug 1, 3:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Luzerne, Wyoming	2 hr
Aug 1, 3:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna	3 hr
Aug 1, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Luzerne	43 min
Aug 1, 5:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Luzerne	35 min
Aug 1, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Luzerne	59 min

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.