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Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 5, 2003Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 5, 2003, 4:34 PM EDT for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 26 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, 4:34 PM EDT (20:34 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2003, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 48 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:34 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, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KBUF 052036
FFWBUF
NYC121-052100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
434 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  WYOMING COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 424 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY       
  HEAVY RAIN OVER BENNINGTON MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH AND OTHER STORMS 
  DEVELOPING OVER SOUTHERN WYOMING COUNTY.

* THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE... 
  OVER ATTICA AT 445 PM EDT
  FROM ARCADE TO JAVA CENTER BETWEEN 440 PM AND 450 PM EDT

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 4254 7845 4254 7806 4262 7804 4263 7798
          4287 7796 4287 7848 4281 7849 4279 7845

$$

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, 4:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Monroe, Wayne	53 min
Aug 5, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	52 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, 2003 Every 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.