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Flash Flood Warning 39, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 1, 2000Oneida County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 1, 2000, 7:25 PM EDT for Oneida County, New York. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 1, 2000, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired
Aug 1, 2000, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Oneida County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 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, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 144 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-08-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-08-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 118 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
486 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
118 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
140 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 012325
FFWBGM
NYZ009-037-020045-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
725 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 2000

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 8:30 PM FOR ONEIDA COUNTY...

AT 720 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF 
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHWEST ONEIDA COUNTY...WHICH HAD 
PRODUCED 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE PAST HOUR BETWEEN CAMDEN 
AND FLORENCE. THIS LINE WILL MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL AND EASTERN ONEIDA 
COUNTY BETWEEN 7:30 AND 8:30 PM. TORRENTIAL RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED 
WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 
INCHES PER HOUR.  

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

$$

VAN AUSDALL
1 follow-up statement
000 
RWUS32 KBGM 012326 COR
FFSBGM

NYZ009-037-020045-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTED HEADER
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
726 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 2000

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 8:30 PM FOR ONEIDA COUNTY...

AT 720 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED A LINE OF 
THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH NORTHWEST ONEIDA COUNTY...WHICH HAD 
PRODUCED 1.5 TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN IN THE PAST HOUR BETWEEN CAMDEN 
AND FLORENCE. THIS LINE WILL MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL AND EASTERN ONEIDA 
COUNTY BETWEEN 7:30 AND 8:30 PM. TORRENTIAL RAIN CAN BE EXPECTED 
WITH THIS LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS...WITH RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 
INCHES PER HOUR.  

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

$$

VAN AUSDALL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 1, 4:00 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMSteuben, Yates2 hr
Aug 1, 5:40 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMOneida3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2000Every 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.