Above: A photo of Rte. 30 south of the village of Roxbury tonight around 8:40pm, taken by Jennifer Strom.
While a tornado warning for Delaware County was issued for about 15 minutes on Wednesday night, other weather warning and watches remain in effect until after 11pm.
It is unclear whether a tornado actually touched down in Delaware County.
At 8:30pm, the National Weather Service in Binghamton issued a warning that a tornado or potential tornado was near Dunraven in the town of Middletown.
Although ominous dark clouds and pelting rain were visible in central Delaware County by multiple observers around 8:30pm, so far there have been no reports that a tornado was sighted.
According to the NWS 8:30 warning statement, "when a tornado warning is issued based on Doppler Radar, it means that strong rotation has been detected in the storm. A tornado may already be on the ground, or is expected to develop shortly."
The NWS cancelled the tornado warning at 8:45pm.
Earlier this evening, the NWS office in Albany issued a similar tornado warning for Greene and Schoharie counties, and reported that a "tornado was located near Broome Center" at 7:16pm.
Severe thunderstorms and flooding are still a possibility tonight, however.
The NWS issued a flash flood warning for central Delaware County -- including the villages of Walton and Delhi -- until tonight at 11:30pm. The warning noted that there was some flooding reported in Delhi at 8:30pm, although the hydrograph for the West Branch of the Delaware River in Delhi charted the waters at well below flooding at 9:15pm. No other Catskills hydrographs reported flooding at that time.
Around 9pm, a commenter on the NWS Binghamton Facebook page reported minor flooding in Treadwell and Delhi.
The NWS in Binghamton also issued a severe thunderstorm watch for Sullivan and Delaware counties until 11pm.
The tornado warning interrupted public comments at the public hearing on Belleayre Ski Center and the proposed Belleayre Resort tonight in Highmount.
The text of the NWS warnings is below.
FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 836 PM EDT WED MAY 29 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CENTRAL DELAWARE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK...
* UNTIL 1130 PM EDT
* AT 834 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF EXCESSIVE RAINFALL OVER THE WARNED AREA.
* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO DELHI AND WALTON.
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL AROUND 10 PM. RAINFALL TOTALS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES WILL OCCUR IN SOME AREAS. RAPID FLOODING OF STREAMS...CREEKS...URBAN...AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS LIKELY IN AND NEAR THESE LOCATIONS.
SOME FLOODING IS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP NEAR DELHI AS OF 830 PM.
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 241 REMAINS VALID UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING AREAS
IN NEW YORK THIS WATCH INCLUDES 2 COUNTIES
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
DELAWARE
IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK
SULLIVAN
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...DELHI...HONESDALE...MILFORD... MONTICELLO AND WALTON.
