Flood September 17- 18, 2004

Rainfall
Storm Reports
Pictures

The image above depicts storm total rainfall (in inches, as estimated by National Weather Service Doppler Radar) from 2pm on Thursday, September 16th through 3pm on Saturday, September 18th, 2004. Most of the rainfall shown above fell between 8am Friday, September 17th and 8am Saturday, September 18th.

The graphics shown above is the Multisensor Precipitation Estimates, otherwise known as MPE data, The multisensors involved at this time are radar and precipitation gages. The image below is a two day total ending on September 19th, 2004 at 7 AM EDT.

When using MPE data, it is important to remember it is vulnerable to the same inaccuracies that can be caused by either radar or precipitation gages. For radar, problems would be: freezing or frozen precipitation, low topped convection, bright banding, the reflectivity/rainfall relationship in use, calibration of the radar, radar location and elevation, range degradation, and the radar's effective coverage. For precipitation gages, problems come from freezing precipitation, windy conditions, gage siting, undermeasurement by tipping bucket gages in high intensity rainfall, and gage maintenance.

 
Local Storm Reports

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
405 PM EDT SAT SEP 18 2004

..TIME...   ...EVENT...     ...CITY LOCATION...      ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....     ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0802 PM     FLASH FLOOD      TOWANDA                 41.77N 76.45W 
09/17/2004                   BRADFORD           PA   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            COUNTYWIDE
			
0802 PM     FLASH FLOOD      ADDISON                 42.11N 77.23W 
09/17/2004                   STEUBEN            NY   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            FLASH FLOODING COUNTYWIDE

0915 PM     FLASH FLOOD      OWEGO                   42.10N 76.26W 
09/17/2004                   TIOGA              NY   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            COUNTYWIDE

0915 PM     FLASH FLOOD      ELMIRA                  42.09N 76.81W 
09/17/2004                   CHEMUNG            NY   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            COUNTYWIDE

0915 PM     FLASH FLOOD      BINGHAMTON              42.10N 75.91W 
09/17/2004                   BROOME             NY   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            COUNTYWIDE

1030 PM     FLASH FLOOD      MONTROSE                41.83N 75.88W 
09/17/2004                   SUSQUEHANNA        PA   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            COUNTYWIDE


1230 AM     FLASH FLOOD      TUNKHANNOCK             41.54N 75.95W 
09/18/2004                   WYOMING            PA   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            COUNTYWIDE

0230 AM     FLASH FLOOD      HAZLETON                40.95N 75.97W 
09/18/2004                   LUZERNE            PA   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            COUNTYWIDE

0245 AM     FLASH FLOOD      WALTON                  42.17N 75.13W 
09/18/2004                   DELAWARE           NY   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            COUNTYWIDE

0415 AM     FLASH FLOOD      CARBONDALE              41.57N 75.51W 
09/18/2004                   LACKAWANNA         PA   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            COUNTYWIDE

0445 AM     FLASH FLOOD      HONESDALE               41.58N 75.25W 
09/18/2004                   WAYNE              PA   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            COUNTYWIDE

0600 AM     FLASH FLOOD      BAINBRIDGE              42.30N 75.48W 
09/18/2004                   CHENANGO           NY   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            FLOODING MAINLY SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF COUNTY

0600 AM     FLASH FLOOD      UNADILLA                42.33N 75.32W 
09/18/2004                   OTSEGO             NY   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            SOUTHERN PARTS OF COUNTY

0800 AM     FLASH FLOOD      MONTICELLO              41.65N 74.69W 
09/18/2004                   SULLIVAN           NY   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            PORTIONS OF RT 17 CLOSED

1000 AM     FLASH FLOOD      LACKAWAXEN              41.48N 75.00W 
09/18/2004                   PIKE               PA   EMERGENCY MNGR  

            NUMEROUS ROAD WASHOUTS COUNTYWIDE

Rainfall Reports

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATED
SPOTTER REPORTS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
525 PM EDT SAT SEP 18 2004

                          NEW   STORM    TIME/DATE    COMMENTS
LOCATION                  RAIN  TOTAL

NEW YORK

...BROOME...
BINGHAMTON SE                   5.60   0100 PM 09/18 
SANFORD/WINDSOR                 4.45   0825 AM 09/18 
NWS BINGHAMTON                  4.04   0900 AM 09/18 
ENDWELL                         3.42   0821 AM 09/18                 
...CHEMUNG...
ELMIRA                          3.59   0826 AM 09/18                 

...CHENANGO...
GREENE                          3.58   1228 PM 09/18                 

...CORTLAND...
WILLET                          2.96   0100 PM 09/18

...DELAWARE...
ANDES                           6.34   1230 PM 09/18
DELHI                           5.62   1230 PM 09/18                 
LORDVILLE                       5.50   0944 AM 09/18 
BOVINA                          5.28   1235 PM 09/18 
HAMDEN                          4.66   0945 AM 09/18
FISHS EDDY                      4.50   0130 PM 09/18
ROXBURY                         4.05   0824 AM 09/18                 

...MADISON...
CAZENOVIA                       1.55   0945 AM 09/18                 

...ONEIDA...
HOLLAND PATENT                  1.15   0822 AM 09/18                 

...OTSEGO...
GILBERTVILLE                    3.68   0822 AM 09/18                 
LAURENS                         3.38   0821 AM 09/18                 

...STEUBEN...
BIG FLATS                       2.96   0821 AM 09/18                 
HORNELL                         2.23   0826 AM 09/18                 
CANISTEO                        1.91   1229 PM 09/18                 

...SULLIVAN...
LONG EDDY                       5.34   0826 AM 09/18                 
LIBERTY                         5.34   1100 AM 09/18     

...TIOGA...
APALACHIN                       5.50   0825 AM 09/18 
OAKLEY CORNERS                  4.80   0943 AM 09/18
SOUTH OWEGO                     3.93   0820 AM 09/18
LOCKWOOD                        3.21   0824 AM 09/18                 
SPENCER                         2.94   0823 AM 09/18                 

PENNSYLVANIA

...BRADFORD...
NEW ALBANY                      4.71   0946 AM 09/18                 

...LACKAWANNA...
CLARKS SUMMIT                   5.02   1237 PM 09/18                 

...LUZERNE...
BUTLER TWP                      6.62   1230 PM 09/18                 
HARVEYS LAKE                    5.60   0830 AM 09/18                 

...PIKE...
DINGMAN                         7.15   1236 PM 09/18                 
DINGMANS FRY                    6.00   1236 PM 09/18                 

...SUSQUEHANNA...
QUAKER LAKE                     6.00   1236 PM 09/18                 
THOMPSON                        4.76   0947 AM 09/18                 
KINGSLEY                        4.75   0830 AM 09/18                 

...WAYNE...
MILANVILLE                      6.51   1200 PM 09/18                 

...WYOMING...
TUNKHANNOCK                     6.55   1235 PM 09/18                 

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Pictures of some of the flooding that occurred in the area.