Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Sep 27, 1994, 2:54 AM EDT for Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 27, 1994, 2:54 AM EDT (06:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 27, 1994, 6:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bradford County, PA
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 6.9 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
- 43 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 860 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 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 270651 FFWBGM PAC015-271000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 254 AM EDT TUE SEP 27 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON NY HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA ...BRADFORD COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR SHOWS ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN FALLING OVER BRADFORD COUNTY. RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES SHOW OVER ONE HALF INCH OF RAIN HAS FALLEN SINCE 200 AM. THE COUNTY RECEIVED OVER 2 INCHES OF RAIN EARLIER...SO MORE RAINFALL IS LIKELY TO CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. 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, Sep 26, 9:33 PM EDT, 5 hours 21 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040- 043-044-047-048-270440- SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 936 PM EDT MON SEP 26 1994 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS BRADFORD COUNTY THROUGH 11 PM. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD NORTH THROUGH THE EVENING REACHING AUBURN AND SYRACUSE BY 1030 PM. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER THROUGH 11 PM. A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE NORTH ACROSS CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY THROUGH 10 PM AND INTO BROOME COUNTY THROUGH 1030 PM. THE REST OF CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA WILL HAVE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS THROUGH 11 PM. PB
Special weather statement, Sep 26, 9:36 PM EDT, 5 hours 18 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040- 043-044-047-048-270440- SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 936 PM EDT MON SEP 26 1994 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS BRADFORD COUNTY THROUGH 11 PM. THESE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL SPREAD NORTH THROUGH THE EVENING REACHING AUBURN AND SYRACUSE BY 1030 PM. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER THROUGH 11 PM. A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE NORTH ACROSS CENTRAL SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY THROUGH 10 PM AND INTO BROOME COUNTY THROUGH 1030 PM. THE REST OF CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA WILL HAVE WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS THROUGH 11 PM. PB
Special weather statement, Sep 26, 11:24 PM EDT, 3 hours 30 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040- 043-044-047-048-270630- SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1128 PM EDT MON SEP 26 1994 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER OF NEW YORK AND WESTERN BRADFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA THROUGH 1 AM. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION WILL FALL FROM CORTLAND AND NEWARK VALLEY TO ELMIRA AND TROY. THIS AREA WILL MOVE NORTH INTO TOMPKINS AND SOUTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY THROUGH 1 AM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FROM BALDWINSVILLE...EAST INTO THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY. OTHER MAINLY LIGHT SHOWERS WILL BE WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS THE WESTERN CATSKILLS...POCONOS AND WYOMING VALLEY THROUGH 100 AM. PB
Special weather statement, Sep 26, 11:28 PM EDT, 3 hours 26 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040- 043-044-047-048-270630- SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1128 PM EDT MON SEP 26 1994 SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN TIER OF NEW YORK AND WESTERN BRADFORD COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA THROUGH 1 AM. THE HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION WILL FALL FROM CORTLAND AND NEWARK VALLEY TO ELMIRA AND TROY. THIS AREA WILL MOVE NORTH INTO TOMPKINS AND SOUTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY THROUGH 1 AM. OTHER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE FROM BALDWINSVILLE...EAST INTO THE WESTERN MOHAWK VALLEY. OTHER MAINLY LIGHT SHOWERS WILL BE WIDELY SCATTERED ACROSS THE WESTERN CATSKILLS...POCONOS AND WYOMING VALLEY THROUGH 100 AM. PB
Special weather statement, Sep 27, 1:13 AM EDT, 1 hour 41 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040- 043-044-047-048-270820- SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 115 AM EDT TUE SEP 27 1994 SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS ONONDAGA AND CAYUGA COUNTIES THROUGH 230 AM. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTH OUT OF NORTHWEST CORTLAND AND TOMPKINS COUNTIES BY 130 AM. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE FROM LUZERNE AND LACKAWANNA COUNTIES NORTHWARD INTO EASTERN WYOMING COUNTY BY 130 AM AND INTO SUSQUEHANNA AND NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTIES BY 200 AM. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER SOUTHERN BROOME AND TIOGA COUNTIES IN NEW YORK BETWEEN 200 AND 230 AM. PB
Special weather statement, Sep 27, 1:15 AM EDT, 1 hour 39 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040- 043-044-047-048-270820- SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 115 AM EDT TUE SEP 27 1994 SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILL WILL CONTINUE ACROSS ONONDAGA AND CAYUGA COUNTIES THROUGH 230 AM. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE NORTH OUT OF NORTHWEST CORTLAND AND TOMPKINS COUNTIES BY 130 AM. SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL MOVE FROM LUZERNE AND LACKAWANNA COUNTIES NORTHWARD INTO EASTERN WYOMING COUNTY BY 130 AM AND INTO SUSQUEHANNA AND NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTIES BY 200 AM. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL ENTER SOUTHERN BROOME AND TIOGA COUNTIES IN NEW YORK BETWEEN 200 AND 230 AM. PB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 27, 4:44 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Susquehanna | 3 hr |
| Sep 27, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Pike | 45 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 1994Every flash flood warning in 1994
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.