Flood — Broome, New York

2006-06-27 to 2006-06-30 · near Vestal, Broome, New York

Wider weather episode

The Vestal river gage on the Susquehanna River is located 8 miles west of the Binghamton Washington Street Gage. Vestal is on the left bank of the river and the Town of Union Communities of Johnson City, Endwell and Endicott are on the right bank of the Susquehanna River. Each community had extensive flood losses, too numerous to list. Some of the more notable losses are the many homes in areas like the Castle Gardens development which were recovering from losses due to the April 2005 flooding. The inundation of the Enjoi Golf Course forced the cancellation of the "BC Open", a PGA Tour Event. This was a further economic blow for many businesses in the region. The Vestal gage reached the flood stage of 18 feet June 27th at 7:25 pm EDT. It rose to the moderate flooding level of 21 feet June 27th at 11:00 PM EDT. It rose to the major flood level, June 28th at 4:00 AM EDT. The river gage was flooded but continued sending data even though the gage float was as high as it could go. The gage topped out at 32.98 feet, but the USGS made a measurement of the watermark and have the provisional crest at 33.5 feet. The old record for Vestal was 30.5 feet measured from watermarks March 18, 1936. The April 3, 2005 flood crest was 28.87 feet. The local basin average rainfall for June 26 to 29 was 6.87 inches. The river remained well above the flood stage through the end of June at Vestal.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 5516324. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.