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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 17, 2019Sullivan County, New York; Pike County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2019, 6:36 PM EDT for Sullivan County, New York; Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 17, 2019, 6:36 PM EDT (22:36 UTC)
Expired: Jul 17, 2019, 9:13 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Sullivan County, NY, Pike County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 157 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: 90 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -88 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 828 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 35 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 29 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this flash flood warning 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 warning went out at Jul 17, 6:19 PM EDT, 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 17, 6:19 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 17, 5:39 PM EDT, 57 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 17, 5:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 4 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 17, 5:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 1 minute before

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Local storm report, Jul 17, 6:07 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 17, 6:07 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 17, 6:23 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 17, 6:34 PM EDT, 2 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, 10:27 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 11 more	12 hr
Jul 17, 10:36 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Oneida	5 hr
Jul 17, 12:39 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Madison, Oneida, Onondaga	3 hr
Jul 17, 1:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Delaware	42 min
Jul 17, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	50 min
Jul 17, 2:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Delaware	40 min
Jul 17, 2:10 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	110 min
Jul 17, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome	42 min
Jul 17, 3:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome	39 min
Jul 17, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chemung	38 min
Jul 17, 3:43 PM EDT	Excessive Heat Watch	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 11 more	23 hr
Jul 17, 4:00 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome, Tioga	3 hr
Jul 17, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	23 min
Jul 17, 4:41 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Schuyler, Seneca, Steuben, Tompkins, Yates	2 hr
Jul 17, 4:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	3 hr
Jul 17, 5:11 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Sullivan	3 hr
Jul 17, 5:32 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Sullivan	2 hr
Jul 17, 6:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Steuben, Yates	2 hr
Jul 17, 7:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Sullivan	56 min
Jul 17, 7:45 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome	2 hr
Jul 16, 9:03 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Bradford	117 min
Jul 17, 1:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Pike	24 min
Jul 17, 2:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Pike	15 min
Jul 17, 2:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Luzerne	47 min
Jul 17, 3:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Bradford	40 min
Jul 17, 3:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Pike	8 min
Jul 17, 3:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Wayne	39 min
Jul 17, 3:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Wayne	31 min
Jul 17, 3:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Bradford, Susquehanna	35 min
Jul 17, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Luzerne	33 min
Jul 17, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Luzerne	36 min
Jul 17, 6:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Wayne	23 min
Jul 17, 7:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Bradford	60 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.