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Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 19, 2019Chemung County, Steuben County, New York; Bradford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 19, 2019, 5:28 PM EDT for Chemung County, Steuben County, New York; Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 86 min. 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 19, 2019, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired: Jul 19, 2019, 6:54 PM EDT
In force: 86 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Chemung County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Bradford County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:29 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, 9.5 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-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: 997 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -74 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 933 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 135 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.8

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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 19, 4:44 PM EDT, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 19, 4:44 PM EDT, 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 19, 5:07 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 19, 5:05 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 5:12 PM EDT, 16 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 5:14 PM EDT, 14 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 5:15 PM EDT, 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jul 19, 5:26 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jul 19, 5:26 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 19, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Onondaga	35 min
Jul 19, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Steuben, Tioga	45 min
Jul 19, 4:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	22 min
Jul 19, 4:27 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Tompkins	33 min
Jul 19, 4:30 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Schuyler, Steuben	109 min
Jul 19, 4:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	26 min
Jul 19, 4:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Tioga, Tompkins	39 min
Jul 19, 4:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome	33 min
Jul 19, 4:43 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Chemung, Tioga	2 hr
Jul 19, 4:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Tioga	59 min
Jul 19, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Tioga	58 min
Jul 19, 4:53 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Chemung	87 min
Jul 19, 4:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	16 min
Jul 19, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Steuben	40 min
Jul 19, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	16 min
Jul 19, 5:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome, Tioga	38 min
Jul 19, 5:26 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome	64 min
Jul 19, 5:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	16 min
Jul 19, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Delaware, Sullivan	50 min
Jul 19, 5:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	16 min
Jul 19, 5:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango	41 min
Jul 19, 6:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	56 min
Jul 19, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, Tompkins	44 min
Jul 19, 6:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Delaware	40 min
Jul 19, 6:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Delaware	51 min
Jul 19, 7:07 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Cortland	38 min
Jul 19, 7:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chenango	33 min
Jul 19, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford	57 min
Jul 19, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford, Susquehanna, Wyoming	38 min
Jul 19, 6:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Bradford	46 min
Jul 19, 6:46 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Bradford	2 hr
Jul 19, 7:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Lackawanna, Wyoming	28 min
Jul 19, 7:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Lackawanna	59 min

Nearby

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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.