Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2002, 10:26 AM EDT for Onondaga County, New York. It was in force for 6 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
- Jun 14, 2002, 10:26 AM EDT (14:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2002, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Onondaga County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 196 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 488 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -10 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KBGM 141426 FFWBGM NYC067-142030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1025 AM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ONONDAGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL 430 PM EDT. * AT 1015 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OVER THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...BALDWINSVILLE...BRIDGEPORT...CICERO...CLAY... LIVERPOOL...LYSANDER...NORTH SYRACUSE...PLAINVILLE AND VILLAGE GREEN. RADAR INDICATES THAT HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE IN ONONDAGA COUNTY UNTIL AROUND NOON. RUNOFF FROM THIS ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AND THE RAIN THAT HAS ALREADY FALLEN WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF MANY SMALL STREAMS... CREEKS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS NEAR THE ABOVE MENTIONED LOCATIONS. 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. $$ LAT...LON 4314 7652 4306 7613 4315 7595 4327 7647 NICOSIA
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KBGM 141623 FFSBGM NYC067-142015- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 1225 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR ONONDAGA COUNTY... AT 1220 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE AN AREA OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OVER THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...BALDWINSVILLE...BAYBERRY...CICERO...CLAY...EUCLID... LIVERPOOL...LYSANDER...MATTYDALE...NORTH SYRACUSE...PLAINVILLE... SENECA KNOLLS...VAN BUREN...VILLAGE GREEN AND WOODARD. RADAR INDICATED THAT AS MUCH AS 3.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN IN A 2 TO 3 MILE WIDE BAND FROM LYSANDER TO BALDWINSVILLE. ROUTE 370 FROM ROUTE 690 TO BALDWINSVILLE WAS REPORTED TO BE CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. FLOODING WAS ALSO REPORTED ON OTHER ROADS CLOSE TO THE ABOVE MENTIONED LOCATIONS WHERE THE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED. DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THAT THE HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS NORTHERN ONONDAGA COUNTY UNTIL ABOUT 1 PM. RUNOFF FROM PREVIOUS RAINS AND THE ADDITIONAL RAINFALL WILL CONTINUE TO CAUSE SIGNIFICANT FLOODING PROBLEMS IN NORTHERN ONONDAGA COUNTY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. $$ NICOSIA &
000 WGUS71 KBGM 141835 FFSBGM NYC067-142030- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 235 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR ONONDAGA COUNTY... DOPPLER RADAR FROM BINGHAMTON INDICATES THAT OVER 3.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN AN AREA FROM AROUND LYSANDER TO BALDWINSVILLE. A STATE OF EMERGENCY HAS BEEN DECLARED IN BALDWINSVILLE WHERE ALL ROADS ARE REPORTED TO BE CLOSED DUE TO THE FLOODING. ROUTE 370 BETWEEN ROUTE 690 AND BALDWINSVILLE IS REPORTED TO BE FLOODED AND CLOSED. ELDEN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IS REPORTED TO BE CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING PROBLEMS. SEVERAL HOMES IN THE BALDWINSVILLE AREA ARE REPORTED TO BE FLOODED OR HAVE SERIOUS BASEMENT FLOODING. THERE ARE REPORTS OF HOMES THAT HAVE BASEMENT FLOODING UP TO THE CEILING OR FIRST FLOOR. RADAR INDICATES THAT THE RAIN WILL END BY MID-AFTERNOON IN NORTHERN ONONDAGA COUNTY AND BE FOLLOWED BY JUST A FEW SHOWERS OR DRIZZLE. RADAR INDICATES THAT THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN IN AND AROUND THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...BALDWINSVILLE... BAYBERRY...CICERO...CLAY... EUCLID...LIVERPOOL...LYSANDER... PLAINVILLE...SENECA KNOLLS...VAN BUREN...VILLAGE GREEN AND WOODARD. FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS...POOR DRAINAGE AND URBAN AREAS LIKELY WILL CONTINUE IN AND AROUND THE ABOVE-MENTIONED LOCATIONS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. 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. $$ NICOSIA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 4:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Onondaga | 3 hr |
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.