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Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Binghamton, NY

May 28, 2002Delaware County, New York

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 28, 2002, 11:07 AM EDT for Delaware 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 28, 2002, 11:07 AM EDT (15:07 UTC)
Expired: May 28, 2002, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Delaware County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:07 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, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 108 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 899 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 3 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 24 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

488 
WGUS51 KBGM 281507
FFWBGM
NYC025-281800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1104 AM EDT TUE MAY 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT.

* AT 1102 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
AN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OVER WESTERN AND
CENTRAL DELAWARE COUNTY NEAR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...DELHI...
HANCOCK...MEREDITH AND WALTON.

RAPID FLOODING LIKELY WILL OCCUR OVER MANY OF THE SMALL STREAMS AND
CREEKS CLOSE IN AND AROUND THE ABOVE MENTIONED LOCATIONS. AREAS
ESPECIALLY PRONE TO FLASH FLOODING WILL BE DOWNSVILLE...EAST BRANCH
AND SHINHOPPLE WERE EXCESSIVE RAINFALL AND FLOODING OCCURRED LAST
NIGHT.

SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT
ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT. NEVER ATTEMPT TO CROSS HIGH WATER IN A VEHICLE OR ON FOOT!

$$

LAT...LON 4224 7542 4200 7539 4187 7516 4207 7469
          4246 7495

2 follow-up statements

WGUS71 KBGM 281543
FFSBGM
NYC025-281800-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1143 AM EDT TUE MAY 28 2002

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 200 PM EDT FOR DELAWARE 
COUNTY...

AT 1145 AM EDT...HEAVY RAINFALL WAS CONTINUING OVER MUCH OF DELAWARE 
COUNTY. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE ASSOCIATED WITH A THUNDERSTORM IN 
SOUTHWEST DELAWARE COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR EAST BRANCH AT 
NOON...AND HORTON AND BUTTERNUT GROVE AROUND BY 1230 PM.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES.

SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS WILL RAPIDLY FLOOD...POSSIBLY WASHING OUT
ROADS AND FLOODING NEARBY LOW AREAS.

$$

000 
WGUS71 KBGM 281704
FFSBGM
NYC025-281800-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
1259 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 2002

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR DELAWARE
COUNTY...

AT 1256 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS DELAWARE COUNTY. THE 
STRONGEST STORMS AND HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE MOVED OUT OF THE 
COUNTY...BUT SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE 
THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON.

FLOODING PROBLEMS CONTINUE ACROSS DELAWARE COUNTY AS THE RESULT
OF THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING 
THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. THE HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE ENDED FOR AWHILE 
THIS AFTERNOON...BUT PROBLEMS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH EARLY THIS 
AFTERNOON AS RUNOFF FROM THIS MORNINGS STORMS CONTINUES TO FLOW 
INTO AREA STREAMS AND CREEKS. ADDITIONAL STRONG STORMS COULD DEVELOP 
AGAIN ACROSS THE AREA LATE THIS AFTERNOON.

ROAD WASHOUTS HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN COLCHESTER...ANDES...AND HANCOCK 
EARLY THIS 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.

$$

MSE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 27, 9:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware	3 hr
May 28, 1:04 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Otsego	3 hr
May 28, 11:13 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	3 hr
May 28, 12:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	45 min
May 28, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BGM	Sullivan	63 min
May 28, 2:20 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Sullivan	3 hr
May 28, 4:13 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Chemung	3 hr

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2002 Every flash flood warning in 2002

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.