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FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY

1239 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 2002



...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR BROOME

COUNTY...



AT 1233 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATES A 

THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST BROOME

COUNTY.  THE STORM WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH AND WILL BE OUT OF 

BROOME COUNTY BY AROUND 1 PM.



FLOODING PROBLEMS CONTINUE ACROSS SOUTHERN BROOME COUNTY AS A RESULT

OF THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT MOVED ACROSS THE AREA THIS MORNING THROUGH

EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. LATEST RADAR INDICATES NO ADDITIONAL 

THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING UPSTREAM OF THE AREA...SO A BREAK IN THE 

HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR DURING THE NEXT COUPLE OF HOURS. HOWEVER... 

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS MAY DEVELOP LATE THIS AFTERNOON.



THE MOST WIDESPREAD FLOODING LATE THIS MORNING HAS BEEN REPORTED IN 

THE VESTAL AREA. IN VESTAL...FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED NEAR ECHO

ROAD...ROSS HILL ROAD AND TRACY CREEK ROAD.



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.



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