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Red Flag Warning 3, NWS Binghamton, NY

November 15, 20245 counties in Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this red flag warning at Nov 15, 2024, 2:44 PM EST for 5 counties in Pennsylvania. It took effect at Nov 16, 2024, 9:00 AM EST. 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
Nov 15, 2024, 2:44 PM EST (19:44 UTC)
In effect from
Nov 16, 2024, 9:00 AM EST
Expired
Nov 16, 2024, 6:00 PM EST
In force
9 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY

Counties Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:47 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 202 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2024-11-15Temperature 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2024-11-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -51 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
2234 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-51 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.