Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2002
Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 14, 2002, 9:53 AM EDT for Cayuga County, Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 4 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 14, 2002, 9:53 AM EDT (13:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2002, 1:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cayuga County, NY, Wayne County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 1.9 hours before the alert went out and 154 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
- 365 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 668 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 64 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KBUF 141353 FFWBUF NYC011-117-141745- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 949 AM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK EASTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 145 PM EDT * AT 940 AM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER WAYNE AND NORTHERN CAYUGA COUNTIES. THE AREA OF HEAVY RAIN WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. RAINFALL ESTIMATES FROM RADAR INDICATE AMOUNTS OF 2.5 TO 3.5 INCHES HAS FALLEN IN THE PAST THREE HOURS. THE HEAVIEST RAINS WERE NEAR THE TOWN OR IRA IN CAYUGA COUNTY. OVER WAYNE COUNTY 2.0 TO 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN NEAR PORT BAY IN THE LAST THREE HOURS. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU LIVE ALONG A STREAM OR CREEK ACT NOW TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. 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. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO. LAT...LON 4302 7700 4302 7651 4339 7664 4329 7700
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KBUF 141515 FFSBUF NYC011-117-141700- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1115 AM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS CONTINUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... NORTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK EASTERN TWO THIRDS OF WAYNE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK UNTIL 145 PM EDT AT 1051 AM EDT...RADAR INDICATED MODERATE TO HEAVY RAIN OVER THE EASTERN HALF OF WAYNE COUNTY AND OVER NORTHERN CAYUGA. RADAR INDICATES RAINFALL RATES OF A HALF INCH TO AN INCH AN HOUR IN THIS AREA WITH THE HIGHEST TOTALS OF 3.5 TO 5 INCHES RUNNING FROM PORT BAY IN WAYNE COUNTY...SOUTHEAST TO JUST NORTH OF CATO IN NORTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY. THE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN SHOULD CONTINUE INTO THE NOON HOUR. THERE HAS BEEN A REPORT OF 2 INCHES OF RAIN OVERNIGHT AND THIS MORNING NEAR SODUS BAY WITH SOME BASEMENT FLOODING NEAR FAIR HAVEN. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU LIVE ALONG A STREAM OR CREEK ACT NOW TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. TO REPORT SEVERE WEATHER HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO. PACE
000 WGUS71 KBUF 141802 FFSBUF NYC011-117-141830- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 155 PM EDT FRI JUN 14 2002 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING WHICH WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE EASTERN HALF OF WAYNE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK AND NORTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.... THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED OVER THE WARNED AREA. STREAMS AND CREEKS IN THE WARNED AREA WILL CONTINUE TO RUN HIGH BUT SHOULD BEGIN TO RECEDE LATER THIS AFTERNOON. SOME ROADWAYS ARE STILL COVERED WITH WATER ESPECIALLY IN THE AREAS OF MERIDIAN, STERLING AND CATO IN NORTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO AVOID DRIVING THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS REPORTS OF UP TO 3 INCHES OF RAIN IN PARTS OF NORTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY WITH ALMOST 2.5 INCHES OF RAIN AROUND PORT BAY IN EASTERN WAYNE COUNTY. PACE
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.