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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 30, 2023Wyoming County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 30, 2023, 3:40 AM EDT for Wyoming 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
Aug 30, 2023, 3:40 AM EDT (07:40 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 2023, 7:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon
Flood severity
None

County Wyoming County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 271 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2023-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 32 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2023-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 31 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
32 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-173 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1360 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
31 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 4:35 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMDelaware, Sullivan3 hr
Aug 30, 2:24 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMBradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wyoming3 hr
Aug 30, 2:50 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMSusquehanna, Wyoming25 min
Aug 30, 3:51 AM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBGMLackawanna, Luzerne3 hr
Aug 30, 6:09 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningBGMWayne2 hr

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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.