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Flash Flood Warning 23, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 16, 2000Onondaga County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2000, 2:32 PM EDT for Onondaga County, New York. 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: Jul 16, 2000, 2:32 PM EDT (18:32 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Onondaga County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 92 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 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 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 199 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: 47 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 498 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 99 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 161850 COR
FFWBGM
NYC067-162200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING...CORRECTED EXPIRATION TIME
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
232 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ONONDAGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT.

* AT 222 PM EDT...RADAR SHOWS THAT OVER 2 INCHES HAS FALLEN FROM
SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN ONONDAGA COUNTY AROUND
MANLIUS.  RADAR INDICATES THAT AN ADDITION 1 TO 2 INCHES MAY FALL
BETWEEN 2:30 AND 3:30 PM.

* THIS WILL CAUSE STREAMS TO RAPIDLY RISE OUT OF THEIR BANKS.  OTHER
STORMS WILL ALSO MOVE ACROSS ONONDAGA COUNTY...PRODUCING TORRENTIAL
DOWNPOURS AND ADDITIONAL FLASH FLOODING ON STREAMS AND IN URBAN
AREAS.

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.

LAT...LON 4302 7640 4282 7625 4299 7597 4317 7616

$$

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.

NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Jul 16, 10:10 AM EDT, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 10:10 AM EDT, 4 hours 22 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1010 AM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

UPPER LVL LOW WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY MEANDER ACROSS THE AREA TODAY.
KBGM RADAR ALREADY SHOWS SHRA DEVELOPING. WITH COLD POOL ALOFT AND
MORE BREAKS IN THE CLOUDS THAN YESTERDAY...EXPECT SHRA/TSRA
DEVELOPMENT TO CONTINUE THROUGH THE AFT. SHOWERS AND STORMS WILL BE
SLOW MOVING TODAY SO LOCALIZED FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE. DUE TO THE
LOCALIZED NAT
URE WILL NOT ISSUE A WATCH BUT ISSUE AN OUTLOOK
STATEMENT (ESF) INSTEAD. BASICALLY ZONES LOOK IN GOOD SHAPE...SO
ONLY MINOR CHANGES ANTICIPATED.

.BGM...NONE.

SMF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 1:18 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Yates	3 hr
Jul 16, 2:32 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Onondaga	28 min
Jul 16, 7:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Cortland	94 min

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.