Flooding August 08-09, 2013

A slow moving cold front, abundant moisture and an upper level system produced locally heavy rainfall across parts of central New York from the evening of August 8^th to August 9^th, 2013. Several reports of flooding and wind damage can be found in the Preliminary Local Storm Report.

Pictures of the flooding taken by the public can be found via the National Weather Service Binghamton Facebook page.

The MPE graphics shown in this section are Multisensor Precipitation Estimates, otherwise known as MPE data. The data used to produce this graphic is a combination of radar and precipitation gages. Source: Middle Atlantic River Forecast Center.

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. Click on image for a larger view.