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Flood Watch 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

January 23, 2018Delaware County, Sullivan County, New York; 4 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flood watch at Jan 23, 2018, 6:18 AM EST for Delaware County, Sullivan County, New York; 4 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 23, 2018, 6:18 AM EST (11:18 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 2018, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Flood severity: None

Counties Delaware County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Wayne County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:18 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 217 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: 759 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 345 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 307 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 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 flood watch went out at Jan 23, 4:19 AM EST, 1 hour 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 23, 4:19 AM EST, 1 hour 59 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 23, 3:54 AM EST, 2 hours 24 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
Jan 23, 5:54 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome, Delaware, Sullivan	4 hr
Jan 23, 9:49 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Sullivan	3 hr
Jan 23, 12:54 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	6 hr
Jan 23, 1:48 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Wyoming	6 hr
Jan 23, 2:26 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Wyoming	6 hr

Nearby

Flood Watches in Pennsylvania, 2018 Flood Watches in New York, 2018 Every 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.