Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 19, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 1998, 4:23 AM EDT for Erie County, Genesee County, New York. It was in force for 2 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 1998, 4:23 AM EDT (08:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 6:25 AM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 18 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
- 1359 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -61 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1460 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 68 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 5.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 260824 FFWBUF NYC029-037-261025- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 423 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS FOR... EASTERN ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK GENESEE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 625 AM EDT * AT 4:15 AM EDT... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WILLIAMSVILLE TO NEAR BATAVIA... MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS OF UP TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR. A SKYWARN SPOTTER REPORT INDICATED A HALF INCH OF RAIN IN TEN MINUTES. IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERING THE ROAD. STREETS AND UNDERPASSES MAY FLOOD RAPIDLY IN URBAN AREAS. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR ALREADY OCCURRING. TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY IMMEDIATELY. RSH/TAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:40 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 2:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe, Wayne | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 2:04 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 2:19 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 2:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 3:14 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 3:31 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 3:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 3:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe, Wayne | 65 min |
| Jun 26, 4:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 62 min |
| Jun 26, 5:59 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 61 min |
| Jun 26, 6:43 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 87 min |
| Jun 26, 7:33 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 92 min |
| Jun 26, 8:01 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Genesee | 94 min |
| Jun 26, 8:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Monroe | 50 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1998Every flash flood warning in 1998
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.