Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1994
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 22, 1994, 4:58 AM EST for Broome County, New York. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 22, 1994, 4:58 AM EST (09:58 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 22, 1994, 11:00 AM EST
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Broome County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 778 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 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 220959 FFWBGM NYC007-221600- BULLETIN FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 458 AM EST TUE FEB 22 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON NY HAS ISSUED AN ICE JAM FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 AM EST TUESDAY FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN CENTRAL NEW YORK ...EASTERN BROOME COUNTY AN ICE JAM IN THE OCCANUM CREEK IN THE VILLAGE OF WINDSOR CONTINUES TO CAUSE FLOODING THIS MORNING. THE WATER LEVEL HAS CHANGED LITTLE OVERNIGHT ...AND IS STILL FLOODING MAIN STREET AND TWO RESIDENCES. SOME ADDITIONAL FLOODING ON THE SUSQUEHANNA RIVER IS POSSIBLE DOWNSTREAM OF WINDSOR IF AND WHEN THE ICE JAM ON THE OCCANUM CREEK BREAKS THIS MORNING. . DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEH4ICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD AND NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS WATER COVERED BRIDGES. WHITE/AHNERT &
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, Feb 22, 4:30 AM EST, 28 minutes before
NYZ022>025-044>046-055>057-221700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...WINTER STORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 430 AM EST TUE FEB 22 1994 ...A WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE SOUTHERN TIER AND WESTERN CATSKILLS OF NEW YORK FOR WEDNESDAY... SNOW IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN TIER EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE SNOW WILL BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES BY MID MORNING AND ACCUMULATE 6 INCHES OR MORE BY NIGHTFALL. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE SNOW MAY MIX WITH OR CHANGE OVER TO SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN LATE IN THE DAY. IF HEAVY SNOW AND SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATION BECOMES MORE LIKELY...THE WINTER STORM WATCH WILL BE UPGRADED TONIGHT TO A WINTER STORM WARNING. A STORM WILL FORM LATER TODAY OVER TEXAS AND PUSH INTO THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE NORTHEASTWARD AND CROSS OUR AREA LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION REGARDING THIS WINTER WEATHER SITUATION. WHITE
Special weather statement, Feb 22, 4:31 AM EST, 27 minutes before
NYZ022>025-044>046-055>057-221700- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT...WINTER STORM WATCH NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 430 AM EST TUE FEB 22 1994 ...A WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE SOUTHERN TIER AND WESTERN CATSKILLS OF NEW YORK FOR WEDNESDAY... SNOW IS EXPECTED TO MOVE INTO THE SOUTHERN TIER EARLY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE SNOW WILL BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES BY MID MORNING AND ACCUMULATE 6 INCHES OR MORE BY NIGHTFALL. THERE IS THE POSSIBILITY THAT THE SNOW MAY MIX WITH OR CHANGE OVER TO SLEET OR FREEZING RAIN LATE IN THE DAY. IF HEAVY SNOW AND SIGNIFICANT ICE ACCUMULATION BECOMES MORE LIKELY...THE WINTER STORM WATCH WILL BE UPGRADED TONIGHT TO A WINTER STORM WARNING. A STORM WILL FORM LATER TODAY OVER TEXAS AND PUSH INTO THE LOWER OHIO VALLEY BY WEDNESDAY MORNING. THE STORM IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE NORTHEASTWARD AND CROSS OUR AREA LATE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION REGARDING THIS WINTER WEATHER SITUATION. WHITE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 22, 12:25 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Chemung | 7 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 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.