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Flash Flood Watch 1, NWS Binghamton, NY

February 25, 20177 counties in New York; Bradford County, Susquehanna County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood watch at Feb 25, 2017, 4:10 AM EST for 7 counties in New York; Bradford County, Susquehanna County, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 25, 2017, 11:00 AM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 25, 2017, 4:10 AM EST (09:10 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 25, 2017, 11:00 AM EST
Expired: Feb 25, 2017, 6:00 PM EST
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Flood severity: None

Counties Broome County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:12 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 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 160 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1593 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 299 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Feb 25, 2:25 AM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 25, 2:25 AM EST, 1 hour 45 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 25, 10:48 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cayuga, Seneca, Yates	42 min
Feb 25, 11:15 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango	36 hr
Feb 25, 11:15 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Cortland	47 hr
Feb 25, 11:27 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	54 hr
Feb 25, 11:27 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	47 hr
Feb 25, 11:34 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cayuga	41 min
Feb 25, 12:07 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Onondaga	53 min
Feb 25, 12:14 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Tioga	31 min
Feb 25, 12:23 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cortland	37 min
Feb 25, 12:42 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cortland	33 min
Feb 25, 1:12 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	33 min
Feb 25, 1:28 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome, Chenango	32 min
Feb 25, 1:32 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome	28 min
Feb 25, 1:58 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	32 min
Feb 25, 2:36 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	39 min
Feb 25, 3:27 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	3 hr
Feb 25, 3:45 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Otsego	6 hr
Feb 25, 3:50 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Delaware	55 min
Feb 25, 4:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	29 min
Feb 25, 4:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	44 min
Feb 25, 4:04 PM EST	Tornado Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	21 min
Feb 25, 4:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	56 min
Feb 25, 4:29 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	3 hr
Feb 25, 4:35 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	55 min
Feb 25, 4:58 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	47 min
Feb 25, 5:01 PM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	28 hr
Feb 25, 5:23 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	6 hr
Feb 25, 12:45 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Wyoming	30 min
Feb 25, 1:19 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Susquehanna	26 min
Feb 25, 1:41 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Luzerne	34 min
Feb 25, 2:11 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	49 min
Feb 25, 2:22 PM EST	Tornado Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	23 min
Feb 25, 2:40 PM EST	Tornado Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	50 min
Feb 25, 3:06 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne	24 min
Feb 25, 3:13 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	2 hr
Feb 25, 3:15 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Wayne	30 min
Feb 25, 3:22 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	3 hr
Feb 25, 3:45 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wayne	60 min
Feb 25, 4:13 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wayne	3 hr
Feb 25, 6:26 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Wayne	6 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.