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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT...CORRECTED TYPOS

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY

1230 AM EDT TUE SEP 25 2001



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 AM EDT FOR MADISON AND

ONEIDA COUNTIES...



AT 1230 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A 

THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL NEAR ONEIDA IN MADISON COUNTY 

UP TO ROME IN ONEIDA COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 

MPH.



THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN MOVING REPEATEDLY ACROSS MADISON AND ONEIDA 

COUNTIES DURING THE EVENING AND WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE MORE 

RAINFALL THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS.  STORM TOTAL PRECIPITATION 

ESTIMATES FROM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED BETWEEN 2 AND 4 INCHES OF 

RAINFALL FROM BOONVILLE TO ROME TO HAMILTON.  BASEMENTS WERE FLOODED 

IN HAMILTON AND THE CITY OF ONEIDA ACROSS MADISON COUNTY.  THERE 

ALSO WAS SOME BASEMENT FLOODING IN ONEIDA COUNTY IN THE TOWNS OF 

VERONA...VERNON...BOONVILLE....AND LEE. 



THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE NEAR...

ONEIDA CASTLE AND ONEIDA AROUND 1230 AM.

VERONA AND VERNON AROUND 1235 AM.

NEW LONDON AND WESTMORELAND AROUND 1240 AM.

VERONA MILLS AND BLOSSVALE AROUND 1245 AM.

ROME AND GRIFFISS AFB AROUND 1250 AM.



SLOW MOVING THUNDERSTORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IN THE

WARNED AREA. RUNOFF FROM THIS EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLASH 

FLOODING IN THE WARNED AREA.



DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE

ROADWAY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED. MOVE TO

HIGHER GROUND.



BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS AT NIGHT WHEN IT IS HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE

DANGERS OF FLOODS AND FLASH FLOODS.



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