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Flash Flood Watch 7, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 17, 20175 counties in New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood watch at Jul 17, 2017, 3:14 AM EDT for 5 counties in New York. It took effect at Jul 17, 2017, 1:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 2017, 3:14 AM EDT (07:14 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 17, 2017, 1:00 PM EDT
Expired: Jul 17, 2017, 6:51 PM EDT
In force: 6 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

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:15 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, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 140 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: 102 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1882 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 83 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 Jul 17, 1:47 AM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 1:47 AM EDT, 1 hour 27 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
Jul 17, 6:48 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	27 min
Jul 17, 10:07 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cayuga	53 min
Jul 17, 11:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	30 min
Jul 17, 11:18 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Yates	57 min
Jul 17, 11:51 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Yates	3 hr
Jul 17, 12:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Tioga	43 min
Jul 17, 12:24 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Schuyler	66 min
Jul 17, 12:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	62 min
Jul 17, 12:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, Schuyler, Seneca, Tompkins and 1 more	60 min
Jul 17, 12:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	61 min
Jul 17, 12:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Schuyler, Seneca, Yates	6 hr
Jul 17, 12:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chenango	64 min
Jul 17, 1:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome	53 min
Jul 17, 1:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chenango, Otsego	42 min
Jul 17, 1:29 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Oneida	3 hr
Jul 17, 1:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben	67 min
Jul 17, 1:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome	64 min
Jul 17, 2:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Cortland, Schuyler, Steuben, Tompkins	6 hr
Jul 17, 2:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Chenango	3 hr
Jul 17, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	42 min
Jul 17, 2:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	55 min
Jul 17, 3:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung	35 min
Jul 17, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Tioga	48 min
Jul 17, 3:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	3 hr
Jul 17, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	47 min
Jul 17, 4:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Chemung, Steuben	117 min
Jul 17, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware	49 min
Jul 17, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome	52 min
Jul 17, 4:56 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Otsego	2 hr
Jul 17, 5:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Oneida	2 hr
Jul 17, 5:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Oneida	23 min
Jul 17, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware	50 min
Jul 17, 7:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	16 min
Jul 17, 12:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Luzerne	47 min
Jul 17, 12:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Luzerne, Wyoming	48 min
Jul 17, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	66 min
Jul 17, 1:50 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Luzerne	3 hr
Jul 17, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	64 min
Jul 17, 2:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Susquehanna	6 hr
Jul 17, 2:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	6 hr
Jul 17, 4:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wyoming	49 min
Jul 17, 5:09 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Bradford	2 hr
Jul 17, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford, Wyoming	34 min
Jul 17, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Luzerne, Wyoming	44 min
Jul 17, 6:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Luzerne	116 min

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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.