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Flash Flood Watch 5, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood watch at Aug 11, 2018, 3:05 AM EDT for Broome County, Delaware County, Sullivan County, New York; 7 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 11, 2018, 3:05 AM EDT (07:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 11, 2018, 9:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Flood severity
- None
Counties Broome County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 183 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
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1323 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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 Aug 11, 2:14 AM EDT, 51 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 11, 2:14 AM EDT, 51 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 11, 7:50 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Chemung | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 10:58 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Chenango, Madison | 2 hr |
| Aug 11, 6:41 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Bradford, Susquehanna | 6 hr |
| Aug 11, 7:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Bradford, Susquehanna | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 7:35 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BGM | Susquehanna | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 10:03 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Bradford, Susquehanna | 3 hr |
| Aug 11, 10:18 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Bradford | 117 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Watches in Pennsylvania, 2018Flash Flood Watches in New York, 2018Every flash flood watch in 2018
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.