Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 17, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2004, 12:47 PM EDT for Jefferson 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 12, 2004, 12:47 PM EDT (16:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2004, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Jefferson County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 216 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
- 41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -121 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 653 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 125 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KBUF 121648 FFWBUF NYC045-121945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1247 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 1243 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING 9 MILES EAST OF FORT DRUM. THE STORM WAS NEARLY STATIONARY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CARTHAGE AND HERRINGS...NEAR ROUTE 3. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. 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 4416 7564 4406 7584 4391 7576 4416 7553 $$ DJF
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KBUF 121716 FFSBUF NYC045-121945- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 112 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY... AT 108 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES EAST OF FORT DRUM NEAR THE TOWN OF DEFERIET. THE THUNDERSTORM WITH EXCESSIVE RAIN WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY EAST AT 3 TO 5 MPH TOWARD CARTHAGE. DOPPLER RADAR HAS ESTIMATED MAXIMUM RAINFALL OF NEARLY 3 INCHES IN THE PAST HOUR AND A HALF JUST EAST OF DEFERIET. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. LAT...LON 4416 7564 4406 7584 4391 7576 4416 7553 $$ NIZIOL
000 WGUS71 KBUF 121810 FFSBUF NYC045-121945- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 159 PM EDT MON JUL 12 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR JEFFERSON COUNTY... AT 155 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN CARTHAGE AND NATURAL BRIDGE AND WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY EAST AT LESS THAN 3 MILES AN HOUR. RADAR ESTIMATES OF 4 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS OCCURRED WITH THIS STORM IN THE PAST COUPLE OF HOURS. THE REGION BETWEEN CARTHAGE AND NATURAL BRIDGE WILL BE SUBJECT TO WIDESPREAD FLOODING THROUGH 345PM. IF YOU ARE TRAVELLING THROUGH THIS AREA...INCLUDING ROUTE 3...BE PREPARED TO GET TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. ANOTHER NEARLY STATIONARY THUNDERSTORM WITH TORRENTIAL RAINFALL HAS DEVELOPED BETWEEN THERESA AND LAFARGEVILLE. RADAR ESTIMATES OVER 2 INCHES OF RAINFALL FROM THIS STORM IN THE PAST HOUR AND A HALF. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. LAT...LON 4416 7564 4406 7584 4391 7576 4416 7553 $$ NIZIOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 3:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 2 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2004Every flash flood warning in 2004
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.