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Flash Flood Warning 50, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 9, 2024Delaware County, Otsego County, Sullivan County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 9, 2024, 2:49 PM EDT for Delaware County, Otsego County, Sullivan County, New York. It was in force for 3 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 9, 2024, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
Expired: Aug 9, 2024, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Flood severity: None

Counties Delaware County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Sullivan County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 106 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: 117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -118 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 486 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 525 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 2.5

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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 Aug 9, 1:54 PM EDT, 55 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 9, 1:54 PM EDT, 55 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Aug 9, 2:20 PM EDT, 29 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 9, 2:26 PM EDT, 23 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 2:27 PM EDT, 22 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 2:28 PM EDT, 21 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 2:30 PM EDT, 19 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 2:32 PM EDT, 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 9, 2:36 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
Aug 9, 7:52 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	8 hr
Aug 9, 9:29 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Chemung, Schuyler, Steuben, Yates	6 hr
Aug 9, 11:13 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Cortland	4 hr
Aug 9, 12:08 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning EmergencyCatastrophic damage threat	BGM	Steuben	6 hr
Aug 9, 12:28 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Schuyler, Seneca, Tioga and 1 more	6 hr
Aug 9, 12:45 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Chemung	15 hr
Aug 9, 12:46 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Steuben	15 hr
Aug 9, 12:47 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Chemung	15 hr
Aug 9, 12:54 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Steuben	10 hr
Aug 9, 1:04 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	BGM	Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware and 11 more	5 hr
Aug 9, 1:33 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Otsego	4 hr
Aug 9, 1:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Steuben	7 hr
Aug 9, 2:27 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	4 hr
Aug 9, 3:44 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	5 hr
Aug 9, 4:00 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	25 hr
Aug 9, 4:34 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	47 hr
Aug 9, 5:04 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	85 min
Aug 9, 5:12 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Steuben	2 hr
Aug 9, 5:34 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	4 hr
Aug 9, 5:35 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	10 hr
Aug 9, 6:06 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	7 hr
Aug 9, 6:37 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	7 hr
Aug 9, 7:41 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	7 hr
Aug 9, 10:42 AM EDT	Tornado Warning	BGM	Susquehanna	18 min
Aug 9, 11:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Bradford, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wyoming	4 hr
Aug 9, 12:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming	4 hr
Aug 9, 3:06 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Bradford	3 hr
Aug 9, 3:38 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BGM	Wayne	6 hr
Aug 9, 4:27 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Wyoming	18 hr
Aug 9, 4:32 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Bradford	106 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.