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Red Flag Warning 1, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this red flag warning at Apr 12, 2023, 8:27 AM EDT for 7 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Apr 12, 2023, 12:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 8 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
- Apr 12, 2023, 8:27 AM EDT (12:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Apr 12, 2023, 12:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Apr 12, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
Counties Bradford County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:27 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 12:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 288 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1518 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 53 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 160 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 180 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.