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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 13, 2000Broome County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 13, 2000, 5:43 PM EDT for Broome 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 counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 13, 2000, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
Expired
May 13, 2000, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Binghamton, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Broome County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 14 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 174 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 2000-05-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2000-05-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -101 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
588 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-73 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 132146
FFWBGM
NYC007-140045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
543 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT.

* AT 539 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL 5 MILES OVER THE BINGHAMTON
  AIRPORT. THIS STORM IS ALSO PRODUCING WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 40 MPH.

* THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...  
  CHENANGO BRIDGE AT 550 PM EDT
  SANITARIA SPGS AT 600 PM EDT.
  BELDEN...HARPURSVILLE AT 615 PM EDT.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO BROOME COUNTY BETWEEN 600 
AND 700 PM.  THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE 1 INCH OF RAIN IN LESS THAN 1 
HOUR.

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.

WALDSTREICHER

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 13, 1:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCayuga, Seneca52 min
May 13, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMMadison, Oneida73 min
May 13, 3:42 PM EDTTornado WarningBGMMadison, Oneida33 min
May 13, 4:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMMadison, Oneida3 hr
May 13, 4:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCortland36 min
May 13, 4:46 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMCortland3 hr
May 13, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMMadison, Oneida63 min
May 13, 4:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMChenango48 min
May 13, 5:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMChenango3 hr
May 13, 5:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBGMTioga3 hr
May 13, 5:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOtsego64 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.