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Flash Flood Warning 34, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 3, 2024, 2:53 PM EDT for Luzerne 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
- Aug 3, 2024, 2:53 PM EDT (18:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2024, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
County Luzerne County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 264 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
- 388 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -82 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 974 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 82 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 112 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.9
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 Aug 3, 2:41 PM EDT, 12 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 3, 2:41 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 3, 12:18 PM EDT, 2 hours 35 minutes before
Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Binghamton NY 1218 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024 NYZ062-PAZ038>040-043-044-047-048-072-041630- Sullivan-Bradford-Susquehanna-Northern Wayne-Wyoming-Lackawanna- Luzerne-Pike-Southern Wayne- 1218 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024 ...FLOOD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL 10 PM EDT THIS EVENING... This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central New York and northeast Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Please listen to NOAA Weather Radio or go to weather.gov on the Internet for more information about the following hazards. Flood Watch. Slow moving scattered showers and thunderstorms with heavy downpours are expected today and this could lead to localized flash flooding. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures. Please relay any information about severe weather to the NWS. NYZ022>025-044>046-055>057-041630- Steuben-Schuyler-Chemung-Tompkins-Cortland-Chenango-Otsego-Tioga- Broome-Delaware- 1218 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central New York. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. Slow moving scattered showers and thunderstorms with heavy downpours are expected today and this could lead to localized flash flooding. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Weather spotters are encouraged to report significant weather conditions according to Standard Operating Procedures. Please relay any information about severe weather to the NWS. NYZ009-015>018-036-037-041630- Northern Oneida-Yates-Seneca-Southern Cayuga-Onondaga-Madison- Southern Oneida- 1218 PM EDT Sat Aug 3 2024 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central New York. .DAY ONE...This afternoon and tonight. No hazardous weather is expected at this time. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Hazardous weather is not expected at this time. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 12:17 PM EDT | Flood Watch | BGM | Sullivan | 7 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 3 hr |
| Aug 3, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Lackawanna, Pike, Wayne | 67 min |
| Aug 3, 3:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Bradford, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wyoming | 4 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BGM | Pike | 49 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.