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Red Flag Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

June 6, 20237 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this red flag warning at Jun 6, 2023, 8:26 AM EDT for 7 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jun 6, 2023, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 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
Jun 6, 2023, 8:26 AM EDT (12:26 UTC)
In effect from
Jun 6, 2023, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired
Jun 6, 2023, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
9 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 12:28 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 253 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2023-06-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2023-06-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1914 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 6, 1:34 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMSullivan41 min
Jun 6, 4:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMOneida34 min
Jun 6, 5:17 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMOneida28 min
Jun 6, 5:44 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMOneida31 min
Jun 6, 6:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBGMOtsego37 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.