Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2001

Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 22, 2001Lewis County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 22, 2001, 5:32 PM EDT for Lewis County, New York. It was in force for 58 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued: Jun 22, 2001, 5:32 PM EDT (21:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 22, 2001, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lewis County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 185 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 632 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 190 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 193 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KBUF 222134
FFWBUF
NYC049-222230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
532 PM EDT FRI JUN 22 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAMS FOR...
  LEWIS COUNTY IN NORTH CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 630 PM EDT

* AT 530 PM EDT...THE PUBLIC REPORTED VERY HEAVY RAIN ACROSS MUCH
  OF LEWIS COUNTY...GENERALLY FROM CASTORLAND TO NORTH OSCEOLA.   
  RADAR RIANFALL ESTIMATES OF ONE TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR WERE VERIFIED
  BY LOCAL WEATHER SPOTTERS.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THIS STORM WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

MOST FLASH FLOOD DEATHS OCCUR IN AUTOMOBILES. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS
BRIDGES...DIPS...OR OTHER LOW SPOTS IF WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY.
NEVER TRY TO CROSS A FLOWING STREAM...EVEN A SMALL ONE...ON FOOT. TO
ESCAPE RISING WATER MOVE UP TO HIGHER GROUND.

A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING.
IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY.
RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE 
PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
BUFFALO.

LAT...LON 4403 7546 4350 7570 4373 7520 4399 7547

The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 21, 8:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	2 hr
Jun 21, 10:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	2 hr
Jun 22, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	58 min
Jun 22, 6:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Lewis	89 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2001 Every flash flood warning in 2001

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.