Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2004
Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 14, 2004, 2:23 PM EDT for Ontario 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
- May 14, 2004, 2:23 PM EDT (18:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 14, 2004, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ontario County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:24 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1221 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 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 141824 FFWBUF NYC069-142115- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 223 PM EDT FRI MAY 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ONTARIO COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 515 PM EDT * AT 219 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN...NEARLY 2 INCHES PER HOUR...FROM A THUNDERSTORM NEAR CANANDAIGUA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE NEAR... CANANDAIGUA THROUGH 300 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. THE HEAVY RAIN COULD AMOUNT TO BETWEEN 2 AND 3 INCHES TOTAL FOR THE AFTERNOON BY 3 PM...AND THIS RAIN WAS FALLING OVER AREAS THAT RECEIVED HEAVY RAIN ON THURSDAY. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. LAT...LON 4292 7740 4279 7723 4295 7698 4300 7738 $$ DJF
3 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KBUF 141840 FFSBUF NYC069-142115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 240 PM EDT FRI MAY 14 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR ONTARIO COUNTY... AT 235 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR CLIFTON SPRINGS...OR ABOUT OVER CANANDAIGUA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL BE NEAR... CANANDAIGUA...CLIFTON SPRINGS...AND PHELPS THROUGH 3 PM EDT. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES SHOWED THAT BETWEEN TWO AND TWO AND A HALF INCHES OF RAIN HAD FALLEN AROUND CANANDAIGUA SINCE 145 PM. THIS HEAVY RAIN WAS ON TOP OF HEAVY RAIN THAT FELL IN THAT AREA THURSDAY. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF AROUND AN INCH COULD OCCUR BETWEEN 240 PM AND 330 PM...BRINGING RAINFALL TOTALS FOR THE AFTERNOON TO OVER 3 INCHES IN SPOTS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4292 7740 4279 7723 4295 7698 4300 7738 $$ DJF
000 WGUS71 KBUF 141931 FFSBUF NYC069-142115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 330 PM EDT FRI MAY 14 2004 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR ONTARIO COUNTY... AT 325 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLOODING IN CANANDAIGUA. HOUSES WERE SURROUNDED BY WATER ON GRAINGER STREET. ALSO...AN EARTHEN WALL COLLAPSED INTO A PARKING LOT. ALTHOUGH THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PRODUCED THE FLOODING RAINS WERE MOVING EAST OF ONTARIO COUNTY...ANOTHER LINE OF SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WAS HEADED TOWARD ONTARIO COUNTY FROM ALLEGANY AND LIVINGSTON COUNTIES. ANOTHER INCH OR SO OF RAIN MAY FALL BETWEEN 4 AND 5 PM IN PARTS OF ONTARIO COUNTY. AS A RESULT...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL HAS CAUSED FLOODING OF URBAN AREAS...AND CAN CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT GO NEAR STREAMS THAT ARE RUNNING HIGH OR FLOWING FAST. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO...OR YOUR FAVORITE MEDIA OUTLET...FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. LAT...LON 4292 7740 4279 7723 4295 7698 4300 7738 $$ DJF
000 WGUS71 KBUF 142107 FFSBUF NYC069-142115- FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 506 PM EDT FRI MAY 14 2004 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ONTARIO COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 515 PM EDT... A BAND OF SHOWERS WILL MOVE OUT OF THE COUNTY BY 530 PM. WHILE THERE WILL STILL LIGHT RAIN FOR AWHILE...LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH ADDITIONAL RAIN IS EXPECTED...AND ADDITIONAL FLOODING IS NOT EXPECTED. SOME SMALL STREAMS MAY STILL BE HIGH FOR AWHILE. DO NOT GO NEAR STREAMS THAT ARE RUNNING HIGH OR FLOWING FAST. LAT...LON 4292 7740 4279 7723 4295 7698 4300 7738 $$ APB
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 59 min | |
| May 14, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 48 min |
| May 14, 3:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 88 min |
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.