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 Aug 15, 1:55 PM EST, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 255 PM EDT THU AUG 15 2002 UPPER LVL SWLY FLOW WILL INTERACT WITH STAGNANT UNSTABLE ATMOSPHERE TO PROVIDE REGION WITH CHANCES FOR SPOTTY CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY MAINLY DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. PRECIP REMNANTS FROM ONE WAVE WILL DRIFT ACROSS AREAS NORTHEAST OF BINGHAMTON THROUGH THE LATE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. MEANWHILE...ADDL CONVECTION FIRING IN WESTERN NY AND NCNTRL PA WILL REACH MAINLY WESTERN PARTS OF THIS FCST AREA...AS ANOTHER WK IMPULSE APCHS THE REGION TONIGHT. EXPECT TO SEE SCATTERED ACTIVITY REDEVLOP INTO THE EVENING HOURS SO WILL CARRY TSRA CHANCES MOST EVERYWHERE UNTIL MIDNIGHT UNTIL WAVE AND LLVL CONVG REGION MOVES EAST AND DIURNAL STABILITY KICKS IN. HIER RES VERSION OF ETA MDL HAS A REASONABLE HANDLE ON CURRENT SITUATION AND WILL BE FOLLOWED. FRIDAY LOOKS MAINLY DRY FOR BULK OF THE DAY UNTIL NEXT WK TROF COMES IN FROM UPR MIDWEST. EFFECTS NOT LIKELY UNTIL AFTER MID AFTERNOON...AND EVEN THEN...THIS FEATURE APPEARS TO WASH OUT CONSIDERABLY AS IT BUMPS INTO THE EVER PERSISTENT RIDGE. FOR WESTERN ZONES A LATE DAY CHANCE APPEARS REASONABLE. 850 MB TEMPS WILL REMAIN ON THE ORDER OF 17-18C BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. WITH ONLY PARTIAL SUNSHINE EACH DAY...AN ADIABATIC MIX BETWEEN DRY AND MOIST SHOULD YIELD TEMPERATURES GENERALLY 85 TO 90. BOTH ETA AND AVN AGREE THAT SAT AFTN WILL SEE ANOTHER MORE SIGNIFICANT IMPULSE MOVE AT US IN THE SWLY FLOW. WILL INTRODUCE CHANCES FOR TSRA MAINLY FROM SRN TIER NY ACROSS INTO NE PA FOR THE AFTERNOON AS A RESULT OF THIS FEATURE SCOOTING ACROSS NEPA. IT SHOULD THEN PASS BY SATURDAY EVENING. LATER IN THE WEEKEND...A COOLER AIRMASS CURRENTLY NESTLED IN NORTHERN CANADA SHOULD FINALLY BRING TRUE RELIEF...MAINLY FELT ON MONDAY WITH SUNDAY BEING THE TRANSITION DAY AS THE FRONT MOVES THROUGH WITH WIDESPREAD PRECIP ACTIVITY. .BGM...NONE. BREWSTER
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorms with heavy rain caused ponding of water on roadways. Several cars got stuck in flooded roadways in Scranton and Moosic.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, August 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: 5312594.