Flash Flood Warning 43, NWS Binghamton, NY

Issued

Aug 12, 2000, 12:00 PM EDT (16:00 UTC)

Expired

Aug 12, 2000, 2:00 PM EDT

In force

2 hr

Issued by

NWS Binghamton, NY

Area

Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Sullivan County, NY

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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000 
WGUS51 KBGM 121600
FFWBGM
NYC105-121800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1200 PM EDT SAT AUG 12 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS EXTENDED THE 

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

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT.

* AT NOON EDT...WEATHER RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN       
  CONTINUING OVER WESTERN SULLIVAN COUNTY FROM NORTH BRANCH TO       
  BEAVER BROOK. RADAR ESTIMATES SHOW 5 TO 8 INCHES OF RAIN HAS
  FALLEN IN THIS AREA ALREADY THIS MORNING. RAINFALL RATES CONTINUE
  AT 1 TO 1.5 INCHES PER HOUR. 

COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED NUMEROUS ROAD         
CLOSURES IN LAKE HUNTINGTON...COCHECTON CENTER AND LAVA DUE TO       
WATER RUSHING OVER ROADS. A BRIDGE ON ROUTE 111 WAS WASHED OUT
NEAR COCHECTON CENTER.  TRAVEL IN THIS AREA IS NOT RECOMMENDED. 
RAINFALL IS EXPECTED TO TAPER OFF BY 3 PM...BUT LOCAL SMALL STREAMS 
AND CREEKS WILL LIKELY REMAIN OUT OF THEIR BANKS FOR SEVERAL HOURS. 

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.

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

LAT...LON 4184 7497 4182 7510 4146 7497 4151 7480

$$

JAB/RB

NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at Aug 12, 10:20 AM EDT, 1 hour 40 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1020 AM EDT SAT AUG 12 2000

CUTOFF LOW WILL CONTINUE TO DROP SWD TDA. SOME SLOW MOVG TSTMS OVER
THE WESTERN CATSKILLS WITH FLOODING IN SULLIVAN COUNTY ATTM. MDLS
SUGGEST A TRANSITION TDA AS THE LOW DROPS SWD...WITH MAIN ACTIVITY
PRBLY FOCUSING OVER JERSEY AND E CNTRL PA LATER TDA. WAS CONSIDERING
A FLOOD WATCH FOR FAR SE ZONES...BUT AFTER COORD WITH SURROUNDING
WFOS AND NCEP...HAVE DECIDED TO HOLD OFF. POTNL FOR SOME MORE HEAVY
RAINERS THIS AREA INTO ERLY AFTN...BUT MDLS SUGGEST THAT POTNL WILL
BE ON THE WANE LATER TDA. WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR CLOSELY.

MDLS SUGGEST THAT THE AREA OF SHRA OVER CNTRL NY WILL CONTINUE TO
TRY TO ROTATE WWD INTO THE FINGER LAKES AND CNTRL SRN TIER BUT MDLS
ALSO SUGGEST THAT THE PCPN WILL BECOME MORE FRAGMENTED AND LIGHTER.
WILL CONTINUE WITH LIKELY POPS FOR THESE AREAS. RAIN PRBLY TO
SLIDE S OF NRN ONEIDA COUNTY THIS AFTN. IN THE AVP AREA NOT MUCH YET
BUT XPCT SHRA TO FILL IN THERE AS THE DAY WEARS ON. FCST TEMPS ARE
LTL BLO GUIDANCE WHICH LOOKS GOOD.

HOPING THE AVN TURNS OUT TO BE MDL OF CHOICE AS IT GIVES MUCH OF THE
RGN A DRY SUNDAY. HOWEVER IT APPEARS THAT ANOTHER SURGE OF MSTR MAY
ROTATE INTO ERN ZONES TMRW AS LOW PRESSURE RIDES NE ALONG THE FNT.

.BGM...NONE.

BRADY

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

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.