Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Oct 23, 1990, 11:02 PM EDT for 5 counties in New York. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 23, 1990, 11:02 PM EDT (03:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 24, 1990, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Broome County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 206 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 0 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 347 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBGM 240307 FFWBGM NYC007-015-017-097-107-109-023-240600- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1102 PM EDT TUE OCT 23 1990 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON NY HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL NEW YORK ...BROOME COUNTY...CHEMUNG COUNTY...CHENANGO COUNTY...SCHUYLER COUN ...TIOGA COUNTY...TOMPKINS COUNTY...CORTLAND COUNTY... AT 1045 PM MOST OF THE RAIN ACROSS THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER COUNTIES HAD TAPERED OFF TO LIGHT RAIN...BUT STREAMS REMAIN HIGH...AND SOME SECONDARY ROADS REMAIN FLOODED. ACROSS TIOGA...BROOME...AND CHENANGO COUNTIES...THE RAIN IS STILL ON THE HEAVY SIDE AT TIMES...AND LOWLAND FLOODING HAS OCCURRED...ALONG WITH SOME FLOODED BASEMENTS. IN ADDITION...SEVERAL ROADS WERE FLOODED IN CHENANGO COUNTY. THE RAIN SHOULD TAPER OFF ACROSS THE REGION LATER TONIGHT...BUT TRAVEL ACROSS THE REGION WILL REMAIN DANGEROUS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER G@ROUND.
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.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 23, 8:35 PM EDT, 2 hours 27 minutes before
NYZ004-005-240400- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SYRACUSE NY 830 PM EDT TUE OCT 23 1990 ...FLASH FLOOD WATCHES IN EFFECT FOR CAYUGA...ONONDAGA...AND OSWEGO COUNTIES IN CENTRAL NEW YORK... PERSISTENT RAINS CONTINUE ACROSS CENTRAL NEW YORK TONIGHT...SOME OF WHICH ARE LOCALLY HEAVY. AS OF 800 PM OVER ONE INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT HANCOCK INTL AIRPORT IN NORTH SYRACUSE(1.09). THIS RAIN HAS SATURATED THE GROUND AND ADDITIONAL RAINS MAY CAUSE LOWLAND AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. SOME BASEMENT FLOODING IN THE VILLAGE OF PHONEIX IN OSWEGO COUNTY HAS ALREADY BEEN REPORTED. ADDITINAL HEAVY RAINS MAY CAUSE SOME SMALL STREAMS TO REACH OR EXCEED BANKFUL. THE WATCH MEANS A FLOOD THREAT EXISTS IN THE INDICATED AREA. CHECK PREPAREDNESS REQUIREMENTS. KEEP INFORMED AND BE READY FOR QUICK ACTION IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED OR A WARNING IS ISSUED. ELARDO ELARDO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 11:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Chenango | 3 hr |
| Oct 23, 11:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Schuyler | 3 hr |
| Oct 24, 2:13 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Broome, Chenango, Cortland, Tioga | 6 hr |
| Oct 24, 2:13 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Schuyler | 6 hr |
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.