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River Flood Warning 11, NWS Binghamton, NY

July 31, 2009Wyoming County, Pennsylvania

NWS Binghamton, NY issued this river flood warning at Jul 31, 2009, 3:22 PM EDT for Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. It took effect at Jul 31, 2009, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 16 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 31, 2009, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 31, 2009, 6:00 PM EDT
Expired: Aug 1, 2009, 10:08 AM EDT
In force: 16 hr
Issued by: NWS Binghamton, NY
Flood severity: Minor

County Wyoming County, PA

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The river

Written for the forecast point Tunkhannock Creek at Tunkhannock (TNKP1). The gauge peaked at 10.57 ft at Jul 31, 2009, 8:00 PM EDT.

Action stage: 9 ft
Minor stage: 11 ft
Moderate stage: 14 ft
Major stage: 17 ft

This gauge today: stage, forecast and historic crests

Stage from the USGS instantaneous record for site 01534000, 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 Jul 31, 3:22 PM EDT, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 31, 3:22 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 31, 2:19 PM EDT, 1 hour 3 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
Jul 31, 9:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	3 hr
Jul 31, 10:35 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	6 hr
Jul 31, 1:03 PM EDT	River Flood Warning	BGM	Delaware, Sullivan	8 hr
Jul 31, 8:31 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Susquehanna, Wayne, Wyoming	3 hr
Jul 31, 9:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne, Wyoming	6 hr
Jul 31, 9:54 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Susquehanna, Wayne	6 hr
Jul 31, 12:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Lackawanna, Luzerne	4 hr
Jul 31, 3:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BGM	Wyoming	3 hr

Nearby

River Flood Warnings in Pennsylvania, 2009 Every river flood warning in 2009

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.