Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1989
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 21, 1989, 6:00 AM EDT for Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 21, 1989, 6:00 AM EDT (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 21, 1989, 12:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 67 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 622 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 211007 COR FFWBUF NYC009-003-051-121-055-212100- BULLETIN IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 600 AM EDT WED JUN 21 1989 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING TODAY FOR PEOPLE ALONG OR NEAR THE ALLEGHANY AND GENESEE RIVERS AND NEARBY CREEKS IN THE FOLLOWING NEW YORK COUNTIES... ALLEGANY CATTARAUGUS WYOMING LIVINGSTON MONROE FLOODING ALONG THE ALLEGANY HAS BEEN REPORTED IN THE OLEAN AREA AND HAS REACHED FLOOD STAGE IN THE SALAMANCA AREA. DIKES PROTECT THE CITIES. THE GENESEE HAS FLOODED IN THE WELLSVILLE...SCIO PORTAGEVILLE AREA WITH NEARBY FEEDER CREEKS. A FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS BEEN REPORTED. TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. EGR
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this flash flood warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 12:31 AM EDT, 5 hours 29 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1230 AM EDT WED JUN 21 1989 ...DENSE FOG ADVISORY FOR CENTRAL WESTERN COUNTIES AND WESTERN LAKE ONTARIO COUNTIES... AREAS OF DENSE FOG ARE IN PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL WESTERN COUNTIES AND WESTERN LAKE ONTARIO COUNTIES OF NEW YORK INCLUDING THE BUFFALO NIAGARA FALLS METRPOLITAN AREA. VISIBILITIES OF LESS THAN 1/4 MILE ARE PREVALENT IN PARTS OF THE METROPOLITAN AREAS. THE FOG MAY SPREAD TO OTHER AREAS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW YORK. THE COMBINATION OF SATURATED AIR AND WET GROUND WILL CAUSE THE FOG TO THICKEN. THIS SITUATION COULD PERSIST THROUGH THE NIGHT. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXCERCISE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN DRIVING IN THESE LOW VISIBLITY AREAS. EGR
Special weather statement, Jun 21, 4:52 AM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 450 AM EDT WED JUN 21 1989 ...AREAS OF DENSE FOG OVER PORTIONS OF WESTERN NEW YORK... AREAS OF DENSE FOG ARE PRODUCING VISIBILITIES BELOW A QUARTER OF A MILE. THE COMBINATION OF SATURATED AIR AND WET GROUND HAS CAUSED THE FOG TO THICKEN. THIS SITUATION COULD PERSIST AWHILE INTO THE MORNING. MOTORISTS SHOULD EXCERCISE EXTREME CAUTION WHEN DRIVING IN THESE LOW VISIBLITY AREAS. nEGR
Nearby
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.