Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1993
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Mar 29, 1993, 8:06 PM EST for Delaware County, New York. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 29, 1993, 8:06 PM EST (01:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 30, 1993, 12:15 AM EST
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Delaware County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 549 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 314 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 300111 FFWBGM NYC025-300515- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 806 PM EST MON MAR 29 1993 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON NY HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1215 AM EST FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN CENTRAL NEW YORK ...DELAWARE COUNTY A COMBINATION OF RAIN AND SNOW MELT HAS CAUSED MANY OF THE STREAMS IN DELAWARE COUNTY TO RISE TO BANKFULL. ADDITIONAL RAIN AND SNOW MELT WILL CAUSE THE STREAMS TO EXCEED THEIR BANKS. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS IN DELAWARE COUNTY REPORT THAT THE WATER IS WITHIN A COUPLE FEET OF SOME HOMES IN THE VILLAGE OF WALTON ...AND THAT STREAMS ARE OVERFLOWING THEIR BANKS IN ROXBURY AND GRAND GORGE. IF YOU LIVE ALONG A FLOOD PRONE STREAM OR RIVER...TAKE ACTION NOW TO PROTECT LIVES AND PROPERTY. RAIN WILL CONTINUE IN DELAWARE COUNTY FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS ...CAUSING ADDITIONAL RISES IN AREA STREAMS AND RIVERS. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. IF FLASH FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE ON FOOT. MORFORD
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, Mar 29, 7:11 PM EST, 55 minutes before
NYZ003-006-010-300300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - DENSE FOG ADVISORY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 710 PM EST MON MAR 29 1993 ...A DENSE FOG ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER INCLUDING THE ELMIRA CORNING AREA... MOIST AIR PASSING OVER THE COLD GROUND HAS CAUSED DENSE FOG TO FORM ACROSS PARTS OF THE AREA...ESPECIALLY THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER COUNTIES. THE FOG HAS REDUCED THE VISIBILITY TO ZERO AT THE ITHACA AIRPORT...AND NEAR ZERO IN MANY OTHER PLACES. IF YOU WILL BE OUT TRAVELING THIS EVENING...WATCH FOR SUDDEN CHANGES IN THE VISIBLITY. THE FOG MAY ALSO MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO SEE WATER ON THE ROAD...SO IT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA TO REDUCE YOUR SPEED. MORFORD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 29, 8:22 PM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Cortland | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:22 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Delaware | 4 hr |
| Mar 30, 4:15 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Delaware | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 8:50 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Otsego | 5 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.