Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1998
Flash Flood Warning 21, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 26, 1998, 7:33 AM EDT for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 92 min. 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, 7:33 AM EDT (11:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 1998, 9:05 AM EDT
- In force
- 92 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 11.6 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 261134 FFWBUF NYC121-261305- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 733 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WYOMING COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 905 AM EDT * AT 715 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS ACROSS WYOMING COUNTY. * ADDITIONAL STORMS OVER ERIE COUNTY ARE EXPECTED TO MOVE EAST AND CROSS WYOMING COUNTY THROUGH MID MORNING. RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR WILL PRODUCE RAPID FLOODING OF ROADS...BASEMENTS AND LOW LYING AREAS. IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...BE PREPARED TO TAKE ACTION NOW. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH WATER COVERING THE ROAD. REMEMBER...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLASH FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR ALREADY OCCURRING. TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY IMMEDIATELY. 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, 4:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee | 2 hr |
| 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, 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
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.