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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY

April 4, 2000Broome County, Chenango County, Tioga County, New York; Bradford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 4, 2000, 3:00 AM EDT for Broome County, Chenango County, Tioga County, New York; Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Apr 4, 2000, 3:00 AM EDT (07:00 UTC)
Expired: Apr 4, 2000, 5:45 AM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Broome County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Bradford County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 4 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 185 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 547 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 212 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 209 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KBGM 040700
FFWBGM
NYC007-017-107-PAC015-040945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
300 AM EDT TUE APR 4 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES...
  TIOGA NEW YORK.
  CHENANGO NEW YORK.
  BRADFORD PENNSYLVANIA.
  BROOME NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 545 AM EDT.

* AT 242 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED   
  TO SHOW VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER THE WARNING AREA. ADDITIONAL      
  THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE INTO THE       
  WARNING AREA OVERNIGHT.

* EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR BINGHAMTON...OWEGO...NORWICH...    
  WHITNEY POINT...AND TOWANDA THROUGH 6 AM.

SLOW MOVING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL 
RAINFALL IN THE WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL 
WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING IN SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS.

BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE
DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO
HIGHER GROUND.

MORFORD

LAT...LON 4269 7583 4242 7588 4227 7650 4155 7684
          4165 7614 4199 7612 4206 7552 4275 7531

The office that day

Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 3, 11:55 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2000 Flash Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2000 Every flash flood warning in 2000

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.