1 flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 14, 1:40 AM EST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 240 AM EDT TUE MAY 14 2002 ONE MORE DAY OF DAMP WX IN STORE FOR CNY AND NE PA...BUT NOT NEARLY AS WET AS PREVIOUS TWO. CUTOFF UPR LOW OVERHEAD WL PROVIDE ENOUGH LIFT AND MIDLVL INSTABILITY FOR LIGHT SHOWERY PRECIP TODAY...ESPLY THIS AFTN AS BETTER WRAPAROUND DEF ZONE SLIDES THROUGH. CANADIAN RADARS ACROSS ONTARIO LIT UP PRETTY GOOD WITH LIGHT PRECIP AND WERE ALREADY SEEING SRN EXTEND OF INITIAL DEF ZONE POKING ACROSS THE FINGER LAKES DOWN TO WY VALLEY WITH SOME AREAS OUTSIDE THIS AREA RELATIVELY PRECIP FREE. GOOD NEWS IS THAT STRONG JET ON SOUTHEAST SIDE OF UPR LOW IS NOT FVRBL FOR WHAT CUTOFFS TYPICALLY LIKE TO DO...HANG AROUND. MDLS AGREE THAT SYS WL BE PULLED EAST BY THIS JET AND OUT OF THE AREA BY WEDS AM. MUCH OF THE PRECIP WL BE OVER BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT SO WL BACK OFF ON SHOWERS TONIGHT DOWN TO A SCT/CHANCE THIS EVENING. VERY CHILLY AIR GETS WRAPPED AROUND THIS SYSTEM WITH MUCH OF ATMOS COLUMN FALLING BLO ZERO...ESPLY FOR NRN ZONES. A HILLTOP MIX OF WET SNOW OR GRAUPEL SHOWERS EARLY THIS EVENING IS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION BEFORE IT ALL ENDS. BACK EDGE OF SYNOPTIC CLOUDS ALREADY INTO THE WRN LAKES AND MIDWEST...SO PARTIAL CLEARING SHOULD WORK INTO THE REGION VERY LATE TONIGHT ESPLY SRN AND WRN AREAS. LOW CLOUDS ALWAYS TEND TO HANG TOUGH...SO WONT GET TOO OPTIMISTIC. NOT EXPECTING TOO MUCH WIND UNTIL THIS AFTN WHEN BEST PRESSURE GRADIENT WORKS ACROSS AREA AND STRONGER ISENT DOWNGLIDE/LLVL INSTABILITY IS PRESENT AND FVRBL FOR MIXING MOMENTUM. WINDS ARE CURRENTLY PRETTY QUIET UPSTREAM ATTM. MIDWEED LOOKS TO BE CONSIDERABLY QUIETER WITH NOSE OF HIGH PRES WORKING INTO THE AREA ON WEDS AND LINGERING TO THURS. SUNSHINE WILL WORK ON THE MOIST BLYR TO POP COPIOUS CU FIELDS SO WL CONTINUE WITH PARTLY SUNNY AND A MILDER MORE SEASONABLE DAY. ONLY OTHER ADJUSTMENTS TO FCST ARE ON THURS NITE WHERE MED RANGE MDLS ARE IN AGREEMENT THAT A CD FRONT WL DRIFT THROUGH THE AREA AND INTO AN AIRMASS THAT HAS BEEN JUICED UP DURG THURSDAY WITH DWPTS FCST IN THE LOW 50S. FEEL THAT A CHC SHRA CAN BE INTRODUCED AT THIS POINT WITH THIS FEATURE FOR THURS NITE AND THIS BLENDS BETTER WITH BORDERING FCSTS. AVN KEEPS INSISTING ON LOW PRES DVLPMNT ON THE FRONT FOR FRIDAY INTO ERLY SAT...AND THE ECMWF IS COMING AROUND TO THAT THINKING. CURRENT XTDD HAS CHC PRECIP FOR THESE PERIODS...SO LOOKS GOOD. WL JUST UP THE POPS A TAD TO REFLECT A BIT BETTER CONFIDENCE. .BGM...NONE. BREWSTER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
River Road due to flooding between Route 69 in Oriskany and Route 49 in Marcy. River Road goes over the Mohawk River and the Erie Canal. Rainfall was around two inches for the 48 hours prior to the flooding.
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: 5299714.