Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 10, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2003, 4:22 PM EDT for Monroe County, Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 53 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 5, 2003, 4:22 PM EDT (20:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Monroe County, NY, Wayne County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 99 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
- 268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1016 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 19 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WGUS51 KBUF 052026
FFWBUF
NYC055-117-052115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
422 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
MONROE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
WESTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
* UNTIL 515 PM EDT
* AT 414 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN
MONROE COUNTY...MOVING NORTHWEST AT 20 MPH.
* THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BEOVER ENTIRE METRO
ROCHESTER AREA THROUGH 515 PM
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 4294 7749 4305 7747 4305 7718 4329 7719
4325 7789 4303 7779
$$The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 12:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 36 min |
| Aug 5, 12:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 50 min | |
| Aug 5, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 50 min | |
| Aug 5, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 50 min | |
| Aug 5, 1:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 50 min | |
| Aug 5, 3:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Ontario | 112 min |
| Aug 5, 3:45 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Allegany | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 52 min |
| Aug 5, 4:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 4:54 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Lewis, Oswego | 2 hr |
| Aug 5, 4:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 31 min |
| Aug 5, 5:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 55 min |
| Aug 5, 5:06 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Wayne | 54 min |
| Aug 5, 5:19 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Allegany | 56 min |
| Aug 5, 5:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 36 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2003Every flash flood warning in 2003
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.