Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 18, 1994, 8:00 AM EDT for Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 18, 1994, 8:00 AM EDT (12:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 1994, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bradford County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -46 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 786 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 7 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -55 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 181201 FFWBGM PAC015-181800- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 800 AM EDT THU AUG 18 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON NY HAS ISSUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA ...BRADFORD COUNTY ...BRADFORD COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT REPORTS THAT MAJOR FLOODING CONTINUES ACROSS MUCH OF BRADFORD COUNTY THIS MORNING...SO THE FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN EXTENDED... MANY STREAMS ACROSS THE COUNTY ARE OUT OF THEIR BANKS...AND ARE STILL RISING. LITTLE ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED ACROSS BRADFORD COUNTY THROUGH THE MORNING...BUT IT WILL TAKE SOME TIME FOR THE RUNOFF FROM LAST NIGHT/S RAIN TO MOVE THROUGH THE STREAMS. HERE ARE SOME RAINFALL TOTALS SINCE THE RAIN BEGAN LATE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON...4.12 INCHES IN CANTON...3.64 IN BENTLEY CREEK...3.40 IN HUGOS CORNERS...AND 3.4 INCHES IN TROY. IF YOU MUST TRAVEL IN BRADFORD COUNTY...LEAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO REACH YOUR DESTINATION...AND DRIVE SLOWLY. MANY ROADS HAVE BEEN UNDERMINED... AND COULD COLLAPSE UNDER THE WEIGHT OF YOUR CAR. NEVER DRIVE THROUGH A FLOODED ROAD. A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS IMMINENT. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUN 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, Aug 18, 6:04 AM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038-181205- SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 604 AM EDT THU AUG 18 1994 ...RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF CENTRAL NEW YORK AND BRADFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA... OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL OVER NEW YORK OVER A WIDE AREA FROM HORNELL AND OWEGO...NORTH ACROSS THE FINGER LAKES...TO SYRACUSE AND UTICA IN THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY. FURTHER EAST...MAINLY LIGHT RAIN...WITH PATCHES OF HEAVY RAIN...FROM BINGHAMTON AND BAINBRIDGE... NORTH TO ONEONTA AND CORTLAND. BRADFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA WILL ALSO HAVE RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES THROUGH 800 AM. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL FALL OVER THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE COUNTY INCLUDING CANTON AND TROY. MORFORD
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 6:04 AM EDT, 1 hour 56 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038-181205- SHORT TERM FORECAST...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 604 AM EDT THU AUG 18 1994 ...RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF CENTRAL NEW YORK AND BRADFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA... OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL OVER NEW YORK IN A WIDE AREA FROM HORNELL AND OWEGO...NORTH ACROSS THE FINGER LAKES...TO SYRACUSE AND UTICA IN THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY. FURTHER EAST...MAINLY LIGHT RAIN...WITH PATCHES OF HEAVY RAIN...WILL FALL FROM BINGHAMTON AND BAINBRIDGE...NORTH TO ONEONTA AND CORTLAND. BRADFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA WILL ALSO HAVE RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES THROUGH 800 AM. THE HEAVIEST RAIN WILL FALL OVER THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE COUNTY INCLUDING CANTON AND TROY. MORFORD
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 6:10 AM EDT, 1 hour 50 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038-181205- SHORT TERM FORECAST...CORRECTED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 604 AM EDT THU AUG 18 1994 ...RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES...WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MOST OF CENTRAL NEW YORK AND BRADFORD COUNTY IN NORTHERN PENNSYLVANIA... OCCASIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL FALL OVER NEW YORK IN A WIDE AREA FROM HORNELL AND OWEGO...NORTH ACROSS THE FINGER LAKES...TO SYRACUSE AND UTICA IN THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY. FURTHER EAST...MAINLY LIGHT RAIN...WITH PATCHES OF HEAVY RAIN...WILL FALL FROM BINGHAMTON AND BAINBRIDGE...NORTH TO ONEONTA AND CORTLAND. BRADFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA WILL ALSO HAVE RAIN...HEAVY AT TIMES THROUGH 800 AM. THE HEAVIEST RAI N WILL FALL OVER THE WESTERN THIRD OF THE COUNTY INCLUDING CANTON AND TROY. MORFORD
Special weather statement, Aug 18, 7:37 AM EDT, 23 minutes before
PAZ039-040-043-044-181240- SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 737 AM EDT THU AUG 18 1994 ...A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE THROUGH PARTS OF NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA... A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND GUSTY WINDS WILL MOVE OUT OF NORTHERN WYOMING AND NORTHERN LACKAWANNA COUNTY WILL MOVE THROUGH PARTS OF SUSQUEHANNA AND WAYNE COUNTIES THROUGH 830 AM. THE STORM WILL BE NEAR HOP BOTTOM AND FORREST CITY BETWEEN 730 AND 830 AM...AND BE NEAR STARRUCCA BETWEEN 800 AM AND 830 AM. THIS STORM WILL MOVE THROUGH AN AREA WHERE RADAR ESTIMATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES OF RAIN HAS ALREADY FALLEN. ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN FROM THIS STORM MAY CAUSE FLOODING OF LOW LYING AREAS AS WELL AS CULVERTS. ALSO...STRONG...GUSTY WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. MORFORD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 1:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Bradford | 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.