1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at May 13, 12:00 PM EST, 2 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
100 PM EDT MON MAY 13 2002
UPPER TROF CONTINUES TO DIG INTO THE REGION WITH SEVERAL SURGES OF
EMBEDDED SHORT WAVE ENERGY THROUGH THE PERIOD. GOOD UPPER SUPPORT IS
BEING PROVIDED BY DIFFLUENCE ALOFT ASSOCIATED WITH FAST JET. THESE
DYNAMICS WILL BE THE DRIVING FORCE BEHIND THE DEVELOPMENT OF SFC
LOW MOVING THROUGH THE MIDDLE ATLANTIC REGION TONIGHT. AVN AND NGM
STILL HAVE THE BEST CONSISTENCY WITH ETA MODEL FURTHER SOUTH. WILL
LEAN MORE TOWARDS AN AVN/NGM SOLUTION FOR THIS PACKAGE GIVEN THEIR
CONSISTENCY FROM PREVIOUS RUNS.
UPPER JET DYNAMICS DRIVING HVY PCPN OVER THE OHIO VALLEY ATTM WILL
BRING SIG PCPN INTO THE REGION FROM THE SW AS IT MOVES THROUGH THE
AREA THIS EVENING. BASED ON PROJECTED PATH OF DYNAMICS WILL KEEP
CURRENT CONFIGURATION OF FLOOD WATCH WITH THIS PACKAGE. BEHIND THE
PRIMARY PCPN THIS EVENING ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE AND MAIN PIECE
OF SHORT WAVE ENERGY MOVING THROUGH OVERNIGHT WILL BE ENOUGH TO KEEP
SHOWERS AROUND FOR THE DURATION.
CLOSED LOW WILL SETTLE OVER THE REGION TOMORROW WITH ADDITIONAL
SHORT WAVES ROTATING THROUGH THE FLOW. LOW LEVEL MOISTURE REMAINS
LOCKED IN AND MORE SHOWERS ARE A GOOD BET UNTIL A DEAMPLIFYING RIDGE
NUDGES INTO THE AREA FROM THE WEST ON WEDNESDAY.
BALMY MOS TEMPS LOOK OK SO WILL STAY CLOSE.
BGM...FLOOD WATCH CONTINUES FOR TONIGHT
NYZ015-022>025-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043-044-047-048
SPORERThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Over two inches of rain fell in less than 6 hours onto an already saturated ground. In the town of Ithaca, flooding caused damage to buildings on Elmira Road, Also in Ithaca, Stone Quarry Road was partially eroded creating dropoffs of 10 feet or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New York in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, May 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5299596.