Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 10, 1993, 11:59 PM EDT for Cortland County, Tompkins County, New York. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 10, 1993, 11:59 PM EDT (03:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 11, 1993, 5:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cortland County, NY, Tompkins County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 201 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
- 86 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -10 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 693 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 166 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 213 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Apr 10, 6:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 34 minutes before
PAZ007-008-010-016-110305- FLOOD STATEMENT ... REPEATED FOR COLUMBIA COUNTY EMA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILKES-BARRE SCRANTON PA 625 PM EDT SAT APR 10 1993 ...FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR CREEKS AND STREAMS THROUGHOUT LUZERNE COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM EDT... AS OF 615 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER MOST OF NORTHEASTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. THIS RAIN WILL PROBABLY PERSIST AT LEAST UNTIL LATER THIS EVENING. AS A RESULT...FLOOD WARNINGS FOR LUZERNE COUNTY HAVE BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 10 PM EDT. LUZERNE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE REPORTING THAT AS OF ABOUT 6 PM...BOTH THE BIG WAPWALLOPEN CREEK IN RICE TOWNSHIP AND THE NEWPORT CREEK IN NEWPORT TOWNSHIP WERE BEGINNING TO FLOOD WITH LOCAL SANDBAGGING EFFORTS TAKING PLACE. NUMEROUS OTHER CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS THE COUNTY WERE ALSO OUT OF THEIR BANKS. AUTOMATIC RAIN GAGES AND SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS SHOW THAT GENERALLY FROM ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS LUZERNE COUNTY SINCE EARLY THIS MORNING...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS. IF YOU LIVE NEAR A CREEK OR STREAM OR IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA...PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WATER LEVELS THIS EVENING AND BE PREPARED TO QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IN THE EVENT OF ANY FLOODING. JUREWICZ/HAMILTON/WSO WILKES-BARRE SCRANTON
Special weather statement, Apr 10, 6:33 PM EDT, 5 hours 26 minutes before
PAZ007-008-010-016-110305- FLOOD STATEMENT ... REPEATED FOR COLUMBIA COUNTY EMA NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILKES-BARRE SCRANTON PA 625 PM EDT SAT APR 10 1993 ...FLOOD WARNINGS ARE IN EFFECT FOR CREEKS AND STREAMS THROUGHOUT LUZERNE COUNTY UNTIL 10 PM EDT... AS OF 615 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR CONTINUES TO SHOW MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER MOST OF NORTHEASTERN AND CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA. THIS RAIN WILL PROBABLY PERSIST AT LEAST UNTIL LATER THIS EVENING. AS A RESULT...FLOOD WARNINGS FOR LUZERNE COUNTY HAVE BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 10 PM EDT. LUZERNE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS ARE REPORTING THAT AS OF ABOUT 6 PM...BOTH THE BIG WAPWALLOPEN CREEK IN RICE TOWNSHIP AND THE NEWPORT CREEK IN NEWPORT TOWNSHIP WERE BEGINNING TO FLOOD WITH LOCAL SANDBAGGING EFFORTS TAKING PLACE. NUMEROUS OTHER CREEKS AND STREAMS ACROSS THE COUNTY WERE ALSO OUT OF THEIR BANKS. AUTOMATIC RAIN GAGES AND SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTS SHOW THAT GENERALLY FROM ONE TO THREE INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS LUZERNE COUNTY SINCE EARLY THIS MORNING...WITH LOCALLY HIGHER AMOUNTS. IF YOU LIVE NEAR A CREEK OR STREAM OR IN A FLOOD PRONE AREA...PAY CLOSE ATTENTION TO WATER LEVELS THIS EVENING AND BE PREPARED TO QUICKLY MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IN THE EVENT OF ANY FLOODING. JUREWICZ/HAMILTON/WSO WILKES-BARRE SCRANTON
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 8:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Chenango, Delaware | 6 hr |
| Apr 10, 10:00 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Broome, Tioga | 5 hr |
| Apr 11, 12:48 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Chenango, Delaware, Otsego | 6 hr |
| Apr 11, 1:02 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Chemung, Schuyler | 5 hr |
| Apr 11, 2:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Broome, Tioga | 6 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1993Every flash flood warning in 1993
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.