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Flash Flood Warning 45, NWS Binghamton, NY

August 12, 2000Sullivan County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 12, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT for Sullivan County, New York. It was in force for 4 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
Aug 12, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 12, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Sullivan County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:00 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 193 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 131 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
131 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 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 122203
FFWBGM
NYC105-130200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
600 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 1000 PM EDT.

* AT 530 PM EDT...EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED THAT WIDESPREAD
  FLOODING PROBLEMS CONTINUED IN THE WESTERN HALF OF THE COUNTY. A
  STATE OF EMERGENCY REMAINS IN EFFECT AND NON-EMERGENCY TRAVEL
  SHOULD BE AVOIDED. NUMEROUS ROADS AND BRIDGES REMAINED WASHED OUT 
  OR UNDERWATER...AND MANY SMALL STREAMS ARE OUT OF THEIR BANKS. 

A FEW SHOWERS WILL STILL AFFECT THE AREA THIS EVENING...BUT 
ADDITIONAL SIGNIFICANT RAINFALL IS NOT EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP. FLOOD 
WATERS SLOWLY RECEDE DURING THE NIGHT.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS 
IMMINENT. DO NOT GO AROUND POLICE BARRICADES...AND NEVER DRIVE YOUR 
VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT 
IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. 

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

LAT...LON 4150 7500 4141 7477 4149 7475 4187 7485
          4194 7497 4187 7513

$$

BREWSTER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 8:07 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMSullivan3 hr
Aug 12, 9:01 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMSullivan3 hr
Aug 12, 12:00 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMSullivan2 hr
Aug 12, 2:05 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMSullivan4 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.