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Flood Watch 5, NWS Binghamton, NY

March 30, 20176 counties in New York; 4 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flood watch at Mar 30, 2017, 1:11 PM EDT for 6 counties in New York; 4 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Mar 31, 2017, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 27 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 30, 2017, 1:11 PM EDT (17:11 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 31, 2017, 8:00 AM EDT
Expired
Apr 1, 2017, 10:48 AM EDT
In force
27 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, Tioga County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wyoming County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:10 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 177 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2017-03-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2017-03-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -36 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1399 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-36 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-41 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 30, 3:56 PM EDTWinter Weather AdvisoryBGMChenango, Delaware, Madison, Oneida, Otsego, Sullivan40 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in New York, 2017Flood Watches in Pennsylvania, 2017Every flood watch in 2017

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.