Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1992
Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 31, 1992, 7:51 AM EDT for Seneca County, Yates County, New York. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 31, 1992, 7:51 AM EDT (11:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 31, 1992, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Seneca County, NY, Yates County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 144 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
- 1622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 147 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 KROC 311151
FFWROC
NYC099-123-311700-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED /EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ROCHESTER NY
751 AM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A URBAN AND SMALL
STREAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN
THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES
IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK
SOUTHERN SENECA...YATES
AT 730 AM EDT YATES COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED SEVERE FLOODING IN
PROGRESS. RADAR SHOWS THAT RAIN HAS ENDED IN YATES COUNTY FOR
NOW BUT WITH MORE RAIN AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE SOUTHWEST...
MOVING NORTHEAST. WITH ALREADY SATURATED GROUND...FLOODING CAN
BE EXPECTED FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE MORNING.
A FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT.
MOST FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO
CROSS BRIDGES...DIPS...OR LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT.
TO ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE 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 IMMEDIATELY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
CURLEWhat 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, Jul 31, 5:48 AM EDT, 2 hours 3 minutes before
NYZ003-006-010-311045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 545 AM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 6:45 AM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
NYZ003-006-010-311145- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 640 AM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 ...A FLOOD WATCH IS IN EFFECT TODAY FOR THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER COUNTIES OF NEW YORK... A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN JUST NORTH OF OWEGO AT 630 AM... WILL ENTER NORTHERN BROOME COUNTY NEAR LISLE BY 715 AM. RAIN WILL TAPER OFF IN SCHUYLER COUNTY BY 730 AM. HEAVIER RAINS THIS MORNING WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE MINOR FLOODING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS...INCLUDING STREETS AND HIGHWAYS. NEVER ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH AN AREA WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD...NO MATTER HOW SHALLOW IT MAY APPEAR. REPORTS FROM SKYWARN OBSERVERS SHOW UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAVE FALLEN IN THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER COUNTIES UP TO 630 AM...SINCE THE RAIN BEGAN LAST NIGHT. IN TOMPKINS COUNTY...LANSINGVILLE RECEIVED OVER TWO AND ONE-QUARTER /2.28/ INCHES OF RAIN...WHILE BIG FLATS IN CHEMUNG COUNTY RECEIVED CLOSE TO TWO INCHES /1.93/ OF RAINFALL. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE FLOOD WARNINGS TODAY. AT 630 AM...BINGHAMTON WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A LARGE AREA OF RAIN...SOME OF IT HEAVY...FROM THE FINGER LAKES AND ADIRONDACKS...TO THE SOUTHERN TIER AND WESTERN CATSKILLS IN NEW YORK. IN NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA...A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF BERWICK. OTHER SHOWERS WERE FROM WELLSBORO AND STATE COLLEGE TO POTTSVILLE AND HONESBDALE. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. DELLICARPINI
Special weather statement, Jul 31, 7:08 AM EDT, 43 minutes before
PAZ007-008-010-016-311230- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILKES-BARRE SCRANTON PA 705 AM EDT FRI JUL 31 1992 ...GUSTY THUNDERSTORMS HEADED FOR WAYNE COUNTY... AT 700 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN OVER PORTIONS OF SUSQUEHANNA AND NORTHERN LACKAWANNA COUNTIES. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT ABOUT 45 MPH...AND HAVE A HISTORY OF STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS. THE STRONGEST OF THESE THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO CROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF WAYNE COUNTY BETWEEN 700 AND 800 AM THIS MORNING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...SEEK SHELTER INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING. IF IN A CAR...DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. ALSO TRY TO AVOID USING ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES DURING A THUNDERSTORM... AND WAIT UNTIL THE STORM PASSES BEFORE BATHING OR SHOWERING. HAMILTON/WSO WILKES-BARRE SCRANTON
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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.