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River Flood Warning 3, NWS Binghamton, NY

February 6, 2008Bradford County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this river flood warning at Feb 6, 2008, 8:14 AM EST for Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Feb 7, 2008, 5:10 AM EST. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Feb 6, 2008, 8:14 AM EST (13:14 UTC)
In effect from: Feb 7, 2008, 5:10 AM EST
Expired: Feb 7, 2008, 8:50 PM EST
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Flood severity: Minor

County Bradford County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:16 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 river

Written for the forecast point Susquehanna River at Towanda (TOWP1).

Action stage: 14 ft
Minor stage: 16 ft
Moderate stage: 18 ft
Major stage: 25.1 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01531500, one reading an hour, from a day before the product to a day after it ended. Flood stages are today's.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this river 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 river flood warning went out at Feb 6, 6:47 AM EST, 1 hour 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 6:47 AM EST, 1 hour 27 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Feb 6, 8:14 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango	13 hr
Feb 6, 8:14 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Cortland	37 hr
Feb 6, 8:14 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Chenango, Delaware	49 hr
Feb 6, 8:14 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome	61 hr
Feb 6, 8:14 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Broome, Tioga	46 hr
Feb 6, 8:14 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Tioga	61 hr
Feb 6, 4:06 PM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Chemung	12 hr
Feb 6, 8:14 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Bradford	13 hr
Feb 6, 8:14 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Wyoming	26 hr
Feb 6, 8:14 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BGM	Luzerne	42 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2008 Every river flood warning in 2008

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive; the gauge from the NWS water service and the USGS.