Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 25, 2004, 8:35 PM EDT for Livingston County, Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 115 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
- May 25, 2004, 8:35 PM EDT (00:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 25, 2004, 10:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 115 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Livingston County, NY, Ontario County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:36 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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 84 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 720 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 282 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 312 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 260035 FFWBUF NYC051-069-260230- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 835 PM EDT TUE MAY 25 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ONTARIO COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 1030 PM EDT * AT 830 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING HEAVY RAIN OVER SOUTHERN LIVINGSTON AND NORTHERN ALLEGANY COUNTIES...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE NEAR... CONESUS AT 850 PM EDT... HEMLOCK AT 905 PM EDT... HONEOYE AT 915 PM EDT... BRISTOL MOUNTAIN AT 925 PM EDT... BRISTOL AT 935 PM EDT... THESE STORMS WILL BE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LOCALIZED RAINFALL OF AN INCH TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN IN AN HOUR. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4264 7801 4252 7783 4276 7734 4288 7742 $$ TMA
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KBUF 260152 FFSBUF NYC051-069-260230- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 951 PM EDT TUE MAY 25 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LIVINGSTON AND ONTARIO COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... AT 951 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED THE THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN HAD MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. THE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS HAS ALSO SUBSIDED. THEREFORE...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. AT 910 PM EDT...THE LIVINGSTON COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED FLOODING IN THE MOUNT MORRIS AREA AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVED THROUGH. LAT...LON 4264 7801 4252 7783 4276 7734 4288 7742 $$ TMA
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.