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Flash Flood Warning 24, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 16, 2000Pike County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 16, 2000, 5:54 PM EDT for Pike County, Pennsylvania. It was in force for 2 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, 5:54 PM EDT (21:54 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Pike County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 141 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:56 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.9 hours before the alert went out and 187 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: 905 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 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 162159 COR
FFWBGM
PAC103-170000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  PIKE COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA.

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT.

* AT 550 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NEARLY STATIONARY 
  THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING 3 TO 3.5 INCHES OF RAIN PER HOUR NEAR 
  GLEN RIDGE CLUB...FOREST PARK...TAMIMENT...AND BUSHKILL.

* THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAINFALL OVER
  THESE AREAS FOR THE NEXT 1 TO 2 HOURS.

CAMPERS IN THE WARNED AREA MUST MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.

SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT
ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW 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.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS HIGH WATER IN A VEHICLE OR ON FOOT!

LAT...LON 4115 7518 4102 7501 4115 7492 4117 7506

$$

SPORER

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, 3:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 16, 3:05 PM EDT, 2 hours 49 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
305 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 2000

QUITE A BIT OF CONVECTION ACROSS THE FA THIS AFT AS EXPECTED. SOME
OF THE THUNDERSTORMS HAVE HAD A MEAN STORM MOTION AROUND 3 TO 4
KNOTS. ONE HOUR RADAR ESTIMATED PRECIP HAS BEEN AROUND 2.5 INCHES IN
SOME AREAS...PROMPTING FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS. WILL CONTINUE ENHANCED
WORDING IN THE ZONES FOR LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL THIS EVE. EXPECT
SHRA AND TSRA ACTIVITY TO DIE DOWN AFTER SUNSET LIKE LAST NIGHT.
MODELS IN AGREEMENT IN REGARDS TO CLOSED UPPER LVL LOW OPENING UP
AND MOVING OUT OF THE FA TONIGHT.

EVEN THOUGH THE AVN/NGM POPS FOR TOMORROW ARE IN THE LOW CHC
CATEGORY OR BELOW...THE NGM THUNDERSTORM POPS ARE CATEGORICAL. A
COLD FRONT WILL APPROACH THE FA FROM THE W MONDAY WITH THE NGM LI'S
DROPPING BELOW ZERO IN THE AFT. THEREFORE WILL CONTINUE THE CHC OF
SHRA/TSRA FOR TOMORROW BUT WORD AS AFT.

MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY LOOK DRY. STRONG COLD AIR ADV BRINGS COOLER
TEMPS ON TUESDAY. THE DEWPOINTS ALSO DROP DOWN TO THE LOWER TO
MIDDLE 50S ON TUESDAY.

GUIDANCE TEMPS WERE GENERALLY CLOSE AND FOLLOWED.

.BGM...NONE.

SMF

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.