Alert archive / New York / Flood Watches in 2017
Flood Watch 1, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flood watch at Jan 12, 2017, 10:05 AM EST for Steuben County, New York. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 12, 2017, 10:05 AM EST (15:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 12, 2017, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Flood severity
- None
County Steuben County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 130 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
- 33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 699 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 69 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 261 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 264 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
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.