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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Binghamton, NY

April 30, 2024Chenango County, Otsego County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 30, 2024, 4:54 PM EDT for Chenango County, Otsego County, New York. It was in force for 111 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: Apr 30, 2024, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
Expired: Apr 30, 2024, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 111 min
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Chenango County, NY, Otsego County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 68 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 278 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: 609 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 75 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 97 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Apr 30, 3:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 30, 3:18 PM EDT, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 30, 12:11 PM EDT, 4 hours 43 minutes before

Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Binghamton NY
1211 PM EDT Tue Apr 30 2024

NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043-
044-047-048-072-011615-
Northern Oneida-Yates-Seneca-Southern Cayuga-Onondaga-Steuben-
Schuyler-Chemung-Tompkins-Madison-Southern Oneida-Cortland-Chenango-
Otsego-Tioga-Broome-Delaware-Sullivan-Bradford-Susquehanna-
Northern Wayne-Wyoming-Lackawanna-Luzerne-Pike-Southern Wayne-
1211 PM EDT Tue Apr 30 2024

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central New York and
northeast Pennsylvania.

.DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight.

A round of showers and thunderstorms will move through the area
this afternoon and evening. Some of the storms may produce heavy
downpours, gusty winds and small hail. Localized urban and or small
stream flooding will be possible.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday.

Hazardous weather is not expected at this time.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 30, 3:29 PM EDT, 1 hour 25 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 30, 3:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 30, 3:31 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Apr 30, 3:49 PM EDT, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 30, 4:01 PM EDT, 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Apr 30, 4:41 PM EDT, 13 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
Apr 30, 12:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Oneida	45 min
Apr 30, 4:43 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chemung	47 min
Apr 30, 2:20 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	25 min
Apr 30, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	31 min
Apr 30, 2:49 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome	26 min
Apr 30, 2:56 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	34 min
Apr 30, 3:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chenango	29 min
Apr 30, 3:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Otsego	21 min
Apr 30, 3:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Broome	29 min
Apr 30, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Chenango	29 min
Apr 30, 2:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Susquehanna	24 min
Apr 30, 2:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna	62 min
Apr 30, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Susquehanna, Wayne	43 min
Apr 30, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Lackawanna	34 min
Apr 30, 4:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Wayne	44 min
Apr 30, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Wayne	26 min
Apr 30, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Lackawanna	29 min
Apr 30, 6:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Pike	26 min
Apr 30, 6:05 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BGM	Luzerne	25 min

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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.