Alert archive / Pennsylvania / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 1, 2003, 9:05 PM EDT for Bradford County, Pennsylvania. 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 1, 2003, 9:05 PM EDT (01:05 UTC)
- Expired
- May 2, 2003, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Bradford County, PA
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:08 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 1.1 hours before the alert went out and 220 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -145 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 795 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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 020108 FFWBGM PAC015-020400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 905 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... BRADFORD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA * UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT. * AT 903 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OVER THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...CANTON...ALBA...FRANKLINDALE AND LE ROY. RAPID FLOODING LIKELY WILL OCCUR OVER MANY OF THE SMALL STREAMS AND CREEKS CLOSE TO 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. BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS. $$ LAT...LON 4173 7688 4161 7681 4165 7651 4178 7661
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Binghamton, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this flash flood warning went out at May 1, 7:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 1, 7:10 PM EDT, 1 hour 55 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 710 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 UPDATED TO REMOVE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH FROM ZONES. TSTORMS ONGOING ACROSS CENTRAL ZONES...BUT ARE NOW PARALLEL TO THE UPPER FLOW...SO THE WIND THREAT IS GREATLY DIMINISHED FROM WHEN THE STORMS WENT THROUGH NRN ZONES A FEW HOURS AGO. REST OF ZONES UNCHANGED. VAN AUSDALL ------------------------PREVIOUS DISCUSSION----------------------- SHOWERS AND STORMS FIRING ALONG INCOMING COLD FRONT AND EXISTING OUTFLOW/LAKE BOUNDARIES AS OF THIS WRITING. THE BEST SHOT OF ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS STILL LOOKS TO BE GENERALLY FROM ABOUT I-81 WEST THROUGH EARLY EVENING. THIS IS WHERE BEST COMBO OF INSTABILITY OF DEEP LAYER WIND SHEAR EXISTS. LATER THIS EVENING, THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD HAVE A TENDENCY TO DIMINISH IN INTENSITY WITH STABILIZING ATMOSPHERE. HOWEVER, BAND OF SHOWERS WILL PROBABLY INCREASE IN AREAL COVERAGE AS SURFACE WAVE RIDES ALONG THE SLOW MOVING FRONT AND MID TO UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT IMPROVES. A STEADIER RAIN WILL LAST THROUGH MUCH OF FRIDAY AS LIFT STAYS FOCUSED NEAR AND JUST NORTH OF SURFACE BOUNDARY. SOME DRYING MAY EDGE INTO OUR NORTHERN/WESTERN ZONES DURING THE AFTERNOON, CAUSING THE RAINS TO BEGIN TO TAPER DOWN THERE. FRIDAY NIGHT AND SATURDAY, A LARGE SURFACE HIGH OVER SOUTH CENTRAL CANADA WILL GRADUALLY BUILD OVER THE NORTHEASTERN U.S. AS A RESULT, THE ABOVE MENTIONED FRONT WILL SAG SOUTHWARD AND DRIER AIR WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH IN FROM THE NORTH. WELL TAPER THE RAIN BACK TO SCATTERED SHOWERS BY FRIDAY EVENING, THEN INTRODUCE SOME SUNSHINE BY SATURDAY AFTERNOON FOR THE NORTHERN HALF OF THE REGION. CLOUDS SHOULD BE SLOWER TO DEPART SOUTHERN SECTIONS DURING THE DAY SATURDAY. SUNDAY AND MONDAY SHOULD FEATURE MORE IN THE WAY OF SUNSHINE WITH MILDER TEMPERATURES. .BGM...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 7 PM EDT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL NY AND BRADFORD COUNTY IN NORTHEAST PA. JUREWICZ
Hazardous weather outlook, May 1, 3:25 PM EDT, 5 hours 40 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043- 044-047-048-072-012130- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 325 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY... THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE THROUGH THE REGION THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE. STRONG WINDS AND HAIL ARE THE MAIN THREATS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR MOST OF CENTRAL NEW YORK AND BRADFORD COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA UNTIL 7 PM EDT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER EXPECTED. .SPOTTER CALL TO ACTION STATEMENT... SKYWARN SPOTTERS SHOULD MONITOR THE WEATHER CLOSELY. SKYWARN WILL BE ACTIVATED AS THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA. REMEMBER...ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OR TORNADO WARNINGS ARE CONSIDERED AUTOMATIC SKYWARN ACTIVATION FOR THAT PARTICULAR COUNTY. MJ
In the hours before
Special weather statement, May 1, 3:14 PM EDT, 5 hours 51 minutes before
NYZ015>017-012000- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 314 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 ...THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS MOVING INTO THE AREA... AT 309 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM SENECA FALLS TO PENN YAN.....MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... WYCKOFF AND UNION SPRINGS AT 330 PM. WIND GUSTS TO 50 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. YOU CAN ALSO VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/BGM. PADAVONA
Special weather statement, May 1, 4:06 PM EDT, 4 hours 59 minutes before
NYZ036-037-012045- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 406 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 ...THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL MOVING INTO THE AREA... AT 403 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM SYRACUSE TO ONEIDA...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... ORISKANY AND YORKVILLE AT 430 PM. THIS THUNDERSTORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS. BE PREPARED TO TAKE QUICK ACTION IF A WARNING IS ISSUED. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR FAVORITE LOCAL MEDIA OUTLETS FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. YOU CAN ALSO VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/BGM. PADAVONA
Local storm report, May 1, 5:57 PM EDT, 3 hours 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
0557 PM EDT THU MAY 01 2003
TIME(EDT) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE ...EVENT/REMARKS...
....COUNTY LOCATION....
0430 PM FLOYD NY WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 ONEIDA TREES AND WIRES DOWN
0430 PM CAMDEN NY WIND DAMAGE
05/01/03 ONEIDA TREES AND WIRES DOWN
DJPSpecial weather statement, May 1, 7:00 PM EDT, 2 hours 5 minutes before
NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055-056-PAZ038-012300- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH CANCELLATION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 700 PM EDT THU MAY 1 2003 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS EXPIRED FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES... IN CENTRAL NEW YORK... BROOME...CAYUGA...CHEMUNG...CHENANGO...CORTLAND...MADISON...ONEIDA... ONONDAGA...OTSEGO...SCHUYLER...SENECA...STEUBEN...TIOGA...TOMPKINS AND YATES. IN NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA... BRADFORD. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE THIS EVENING, BUT ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BE SEVERE. VAN AUSDALL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 9:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Susquehanna | 3 hr |
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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.