Flash Flood, Wayne
- When
- June 26, 2:30 PM EST to June 27, 11:30 PM EST
- Where
- Wayne County, Honesdale
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 41.649, -75.303 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, June 26 to 27, 2006
C Sunday morning the 25th moved slowly west to a position from just north of New England south-southwest across the Adirondacks through central New York and then down the spine of the Appalachians by Monday morning the 26th. Tropical moisture moved westward and engulfed nearly all of New York State and most of northern and eastern Pennsylvania by Monday morning.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS BGM wrote it up.
A front from southern New England to near Washington D.C Sunday morning the 25th moved slowly west to a position from just north of New England south-southwest across the Adirondacks through central New York and then down the spine of the Appalachians by Monday morning the 26th. Tropical moisture moved westward and engulfed nearly all of New York State and most of northern and eastern Pennsylvania by Monday morning. This resulted in a widespread area of moderate to heavy rain across all of central New York and northeast Pennsylvania including the Poconos and Catskills. The heaviest rain occurred in the Poconos and Catskills where rainfall amounts totaled between 1.5 and 4 inches by 8 am EDT Monday. In Wayne County, 1 to 3 inches of rain fell across the county by Monday morning. This rainfall saturated the soils before another round of heavy rainfall moved into Wayne County during the day Monday. This next batch of rainfall caused significant flash flooding in the Honesdale and Bethany areas. The flash flooding began at 330 pm EDT and lasted into the evening hours. Many roads were washed out. The Lackawaxen River spilled its bank and flooded a parking lot. A nursing home in the Bethany area was flooded as well.
What forecasters said that day
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 Jun 26, 2:15 PM EST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 26, 2:15 PM EST, 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 315 PM EDT MON JUN 26 2006 .SHORT TERM (TONIGHT - WEDNESDAY)... THE MOST PERSISTENT SHOWERS HAVE BECOME CONCENTRATED ACROSS OUR NORTHERN AND WESTERN ZONES THIS AFTERNOON...WITH MORE SCATTERED CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY FROM ABOUT I-81 EASTWARD. HEAVY RAIN...OF COURSE...REMAINS A CONCERN AREA-WIDE...ESPECIALLY WITH ANY THUNDERSTORMS. THUS...WELL KEEP THE FLASH FLOOD WATCH UP THROUGH 8 PM. BY THIS EVENING...THE NEXT SHIFT CAN CONSIDER IF THE FLOOD THREAT IS HIGH ENOUGH FOR SPECIFIC AREAS TO EXTEND THE WATCH OR NOT. SEVERAL ADDITIONAL PIECES OF ENERGY WILL ROTATE NORTHWARD BETWEEN THE AMPLIFIED UPPER-RIDGE OFF THE EAST COAST AND THE OHIO VALLEY TROUGH THROUGH MID-WEEK. THE MOST SIGNIFICANT WAVE IS EXPECTED TO AFFECT THE REGION TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY...WITH OUR NEXT WIDESPREAD RAIN EVENT PROGGED FOR THIS TIME PERIOD. FOR TUESDAY...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE STILL EXPECTED. ONCE AGAIN...HEAVY RAIN WILL BE A THREAT THIS ENTIRE PERIOD...WITH A DEEP SOUTHERLY FLOW STILL IN PLACE. -MJ && .AVIATION (26/06Z TO 27/06Z)... RAIN CONTS...HEAVY AT TIMES...ACROSS THE AREA THIS AFTN. XPCT A GRADUAL TAPER OFF OF RAIN INTENSITY...WITH A CORRESPONDING INCRS IN VSBYS AND CIGS...THRU 00Z. 00-06Z WILL FEATURE MVFR CIGS AND VSBY WITH SCT LGT RAIN AND LGT FOG. ANOTHER SLUG OF HEAVIER RAIN WILL ENTER THE AREA AFT 06Z AND CIGS AND VSBYS COULD LWR TO IFR LVLS AT TIMES...ESP AT ITH...BGM...AND AVP. AFT 12Z TUE...CONDS SHD IMPROV ONCE AGAIN AS THE RAIN MOVES OUT. GNRLY XPCT VFR CONDS 12 TO 18Z. -MORFORD && .LONG RANGE (WED NIGHT - SUNDAY)... WET CONDS CONT AS THE FCST AREA REMAINS UNDER THE UPPER TROF. TROF AXIS GNRLY CNTRD OVER THE GREAT LAKES AND VARIOUS SHRT WVS WILL ROTATE THRU KEEPING THE AREA UNSTABLE WITH THE RISK OF A SHWR AT ALMOST ANY TIME. MADE ONLY SLGT ADJUSMENTS TO HPC GUID IN TEMPS AND POPS. -MORFORD && .BGM WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .NY...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046- 055>057-062 UNTIL 8 PM EDT MONDAY. .PA...FLASH FLOOD WATCH FOR PAZ038>040-043-044-047-048-072 UNTIL 8 PM EDT MONDAY. &&
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 26, 5:23 AM EST, 9 hours 7 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 623 AM EDT MON JUN 26 2006 NYZ009-015>018-022>025-036-037-044>046-055>057-062-PAZ038>040-043- 044-047-048-072-271030- NORTHERN ONEIDA-YATES-SENECA-SOUTHERN CAYUGA-ONONDAGA-STEUBEN- SCHUYLER-CHEMUNG-TOMPKINS-MADISON-SOUTHERN ONEIDA-CORTLAND- CHENANGO-OTSEGO-TIOGA-BROOME-DELAWARE-SULLIVAN-BRADFORD- SUSQUEHANNA-NORTHERN WAYNE-WYOMING-LACKAWANNA-LUZERNE-PIKE- SOUTHERN WAYNE- 623 AM EDT MON JUN 26 2006 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK...SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HEAVY RAIN WILL CONTINUE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA TODAY...BEFORE SHIFTING TO THE WEST TONIGHT. FLASH FLOODING WILL BE POSSIBLE AS LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN OCCURS AT TIMES THROUGHOUT THE DAY. PLEASE SEE ALBFFABGM WGUS61 FOR THE LATEST DETAILS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY ADDITIONAL HEAVY RAIN WILL BE POSSIBLE THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK AS A VERY MOIST AIRMASS REMAINS IN PLACE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED TODAY IN SUPPORT OF HEAVY RAINFALL AND POSSIBLE FLOODING. RAINFALL SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE INCH OR GREATER. PB
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:28 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, June 26, 2006
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, June 26, 2006
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, June 26, 2006
- Flash Flood in Ohio, June 26, 2006
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, June 26, 2006
- Flash Flood in Virginia, June 26, 2006
- Flash Flood in New York, June 26 to 27, 2006
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, June 26, 2006
- Flash Flood in New York, June 26, 2006
- Tornado and Hail in Minnesota, June 26, 2006
- Flash Flood in Michigan, June 26, 2006
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, June 26, 2006
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, June 2006
Sources
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: 5516191.