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Flash Flood Warning 57, NWS Binghamton, NY

December 18, 2023Sullivan County, New York; Pike County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Dec 18, 2023, 10:28 AM EST for Sullivan County, New York; Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 4 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: Dec 18, 2023, 10:28 AM EST (15:28 UTC)
Expired: Dec 18, 2023, 2:00 PM EST
In force: 4 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 15:31 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 3.5 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 568 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 82 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 664 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1412 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 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 Dec 18, 9:39 AM EST, 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 18, 9:39 AM EST, 49 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 18, 9:44 AM EST, 44 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 18, 10:03 AM EST, 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 18, 10:04 AM EST, 24 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 18, 10:05 AM EST, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 18, 10:11 AM EST, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 18, 10:13 AM EST, 15 minutes before

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Local storm report, Dec 18, 10:18 AM EST, 10 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
Dec 18, 2:46 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome, Chemung, Cortland, Tioga, Tompkins	3 hr
Dec 18, 4:31 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware	3 hr
Dec 18, 4:50 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	3 hr
Dec 18, 4:55 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	4 hr
Dec 18, 5:00 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Onondaga	3 hr
Dec 18, 5:23 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga and 1 more	3 hr
Dec 18, 5:24 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	5 hr
Dec 18, 5:27 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Tioga	4 hr
Dec 18, 5:42 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	38 hr
Dec 18, 5:49 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Otsego	3 hr
Dec 18, 6:09 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga	3 hr
Dec 18, 6:35 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	71 hr
Dec 18, 6:35 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Madison, Oneida	16 hr
Dec 18, 6:35 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	25 hr
Dec 18, 6:35 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	60 hr
Dec 18, 6:35 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango, Delaware	54 hr
Dec 18, 6:35 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Cortland	38 hr
Dec 18, 6:35 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Tioga	45 hr
Dec 18, 6:55 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	BGM	Oneida	3 hr
Dec 18, 7:15 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Sullivan	3 hr
Dec 18, 7:27 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango	3 hr
Dec 18, 7:31 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango, Madison, Oneida, Otsego	3 hr
Dec 18, 7:34 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Madison, Onondaga	3 hr
Dec 18, 7:41 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	3 hr
Dec 18, 8:04 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	4 hr
Dec 18, 8:37 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Chemung, Schuyler, Tioga, Tompkins	5 hr
Dec 18, 8:52 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	19 hr
Dec 18, 8:58 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga and 2 more	5 hr
Dec 18, 9:02 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	5 hr
Dec 18, 9:02 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Tioga	33 hr
Dec 18, 9:02 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware, Otsego	54 hr
Dec 18, 9:02 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	52 hr
Dec 18, 9:32 AM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Cayuga	7 hr
Dec 18, 9:45 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango	39 hr
Dec 18, 9:45 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	15 hr
Dec 18, 9:45 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango	46 hr
Dec 18, 9:47 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Cortland	6 hr
Dec 18, 9:51 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Oneida, Onondaga, Otsego	4 hr
Dec 18, 10:21 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego, Sullivan	4 hr
Dec 18, 2:13 PM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	18 hr
Dec 18, 1:59 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Bradford, Luzerne, Wyoming	3 hr
Dec 18, 3:35 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Lackawanna, Wyoming	3 hr
Dec 18, 4:34 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Susquehanna, Wayne	3 hr
Dec 18, 4:58 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Wayne	3 hr
Dec 18, 5:53 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wyoming	3 hr
Dec 18, 6:00 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Wyoming	16 hr
Dec 18, 6:03 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Bradford	19 hr
Dec 18, 6:17 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	4 hr
Dec 18, 6:48 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	BGM	Susquehanna	3 hr
Dec 18, 8:48 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Pike, Wayne	5 hr
Dec 18, 9:02 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Bradford	53 hr
Dec 18, 9:02 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Wyoming	21 hr
Dec 18, 9:02 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Luzerne	69 hr
Dec 18, 10:22 AM EST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	4 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.