Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2003
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 22, 2003, 2:54 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 3 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
- Jul 22, 2003, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2003, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cattaraugus County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 70 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 68 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 641 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 221855 FFWBUF NYC009-222200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 254 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 249 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 10 MILES SOUTH OF OTTO...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF SALAMANCA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAINFALL WILL BE... 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OTTO AT 335 PM EDT OVER ASHFORD HOLLOW AT 400 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. TO REPORT FLOODING HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO. LAT...LON 4231 7902 4216 7889 4235 7837 4248 7865 $$ DJF
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KBUF 221929 FFSBUF NYC009-013-222200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 327 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS CONTINUED A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK UNTIL 600 PM EDT. AT 324 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN 5 MILES WEST OF ASHFORD...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF SALAMANCA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS NEAR ALLEGANY STATE PARK WERE MOVING SLOWLY NORTH...WHILE WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WERE OBSERVED THROUGHOUT CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. WIDESPREAD SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE OVER BOTH CHAUTAUQUA AND CATTARAUGUS COUNTIES AT LEAST THROUGH 5 PM. DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES INDICATED NEARLY 2 INCHES OF RAIN LIKELY HAD FALLEN BETWEEN 230 PM AND 330 PM JUST NORTHWEST OF LITTLE VALLEY. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. IF YOU LIVE ALONG A STREAM OR CREEK ACT NOW TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. TO REPORT FLOODING HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO. $$ DJF
000 WGUS71 KBUF 222106 FFSBUF NYC009-013-222200- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 506 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 600 PM FOR CHAUTAUQUA AND CATTARAUGUS COUNTIES... AT 445 PM PARK POLICE REPORTED FLASH FLOODING IN THE ALLEGANY STATE PARK. THE EVACUATION OF CAMPERS WAS UNDERWAY. RAIN WAS ENDING OVER CATTARAUGUS COUNTY BUT FLOODING FROM THE RUNOFF WILL CONTINUE. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS 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. $$ SL
000 WGUS71 KBUF 222215 FFSBUF NYC009-013-222245- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 615 PM EDT TUE JUL 22 2003 THE FLASH FLOOD WARNINGS ISSUED EARLIER FOR CHAUTAUQUA AND CATTARAUGUS COUNTIES HAVE EXPIRED. FLOODING CONTINUED AT THE ALLEGANY STATE PARK WHERE CAMPERS WERE EVACUATED EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. THERE WERE ALSO REPORTS OF ROAD CLOSURES IN LIMESTONE. THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED IN CHAUTAUQUA AND CATTARAUGUS COUNTIES. FLOODING WILL GRADUALLY SUBSIDE OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL HOURS. STILL...BE ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS DRIVING THIS EVENING. AVOID FLOODED ROADS WHERE FLOOD WATERS MAY BE HIDING A DANGEROUS WASHOUT. $$ SL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 2:05 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 4 hr |
| Jul 22, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 26 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.