Flash Flood — Broome, New York

2003-06-13 to 2003-06-14 · near Doraville, Broome, New York

Wider weather episode

Showers with heavy rain trained across eastern Broome County into western Delaware County the evening of the June 13th. The showers started around 7 PM EST and continued for three hours. Radar rainfall estimates were 3 to 5 inches. Their was no cloud to ground lightning. A narrow area was affected from the town of Colesville east northeast through the towns of Sanford and Deposit to the towns of Tompkins and Masonville. Many roads flooded. In Broome County, in the town of Colesville, Harper Hill Road, Hartz Road, and Buman Road all washed out. Also in Broome County in the town of Sanford, Clark Road, Huggens Road, and Shamley Road washed out. On Harper Hill Road a 6 foot pipe culvert washed out near Thorne Road and the village of Doraville. The rainfall caused a beaver dam to break at the top of a steep hill above Harper Hill Road. Sometime during the night a Toyota Tercel containing five people drove into the creek where the road was washed out. All five people died. None were found in the car. Three bodies were found in the creek. The other two were found downstream washed up along the Susquehanna River. The creek empties into the river about a half mile from where it crosses Harper Hill Road.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5366008. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.