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Flash Flood Warning 20, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 17, 2004Cattaraugus County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 17, 2004, 7:16 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 119 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
Jul 17, 2004, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 2004, 9:15 PM EDT
In force
119 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cattaraugus County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:16 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, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 62 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 131 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 28 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
131 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-91 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1043 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
28 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KBUF 172317
FFWBUF
NYC009-180115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
716 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT

* AT 711 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR A 
  THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER FREEDOM AND 
  FARMERSVILLE...MOVING SOUTH AT 5 MPH.

* THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE NEAR...
  FRANKLINVILLE AT 850 PM EDT...

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.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
BUFFALO.

LAT...LON 4253 7834 4250 7849 4227 7849 4225 7833

$$

LEVAN
2 follow-up statements
000 
WGUS71 KBUF 180028
FFSBUF
NYC009-180115-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
825 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2004

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CATTARAUGUS COUNTY CONTINUES UNTIL 915
PM EDT...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS WESTERN WYOMING COUNTY. 
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES THAT 4 TO 6 INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN IN 
SOME AREAS OVER THE PAST THREE HOURS. WHILE THE SHOWERS AND 
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED SOMEWHATR...RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 
THE NEXT HOUR OR SO WITH ADDITIONAL RAINFALL OF ANOTHER INCH 
POSSIBLE.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL MAY 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.

TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY
YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN
BUFFALO.

LAT...LON 4253 7834 4250 7849 4227 7849 4225 7833

$$

LEVAN
000 
WGUS71 KBUF 180117
FFSBUF
NYC009-180120-

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
917 PM EDT SAT JUL 17 2004

THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CATTARAUGUS COUNTY HAS EXPIRED.

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE WEAKENED AND MOVED OUT OF THE AREA. 

LAT...LON 4253 7834 4250 7849 4227 7849 4225 7833

$$

LEVAN

The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 17, 4:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee, Orleans58 min
Jul 17, 4:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOntario61 min
Jul 17, 5:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFNiagara52 min
Jul 17, 6:38 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFWyoming2 hr

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.