Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 8, 2005, 6:50 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
- Jun 8, 2005, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2005, 9:45 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), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 226 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
- 508 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1115 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 50 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 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 082258 FFWBUF NYC009-090145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 650 PM EDT WED JUN 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 945 PM EDT * AT 643 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF ALLEGANY PARK... OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALAMANCA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 5 MPH. OTHER THUNDERSTORMS WERE NEAR ELLICOTTVILLE MOVING EAST TOWARD ISCHUA. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO PORTIONS OF THE SOUTHERN TIER EXPRESSWAY FROM SALAMANCA TO THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY LINE AND JUST SOUTH OF RANDOLPH. RADAR INDICATES RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 1.5 INCHES TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR SOUTH OF RANDOLPH AND 1 TO 1.25 INCHES AN HOUR NEAR ELLICOTTVILLE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY 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. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO. LAT...LON 4227 7901 4202 7904 4200 7840 4234 7834 $$ PACE
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KBUF 090041 FFSBUF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 833 PM EDT WED JUN 8 2005 NYC009-090145- CATTARAUGUS NY- 833 PM EDT WED JUN 8 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR CATTARAUGUS COUNTY... AT 830 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO FORM ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY AND THEY WERE MOVING SLOWLY TO THE EAST WITH RAINFALL RATES OF THREE QUARTERS TO AN INCH AN HOUR. RADAR INDICATES THREE HOUR RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF 2.5 TO 3 INCHES SOUTH OF RANDOLPH AND THE SOUTHERN TIER EXPRESSWAY, AROUND CARR CORNERS, VOLLENTINE AND SOUTH VALLEY. THREE HOUR RADAR RAINFALL ESTIMATES OF 1.75 TO 2 INCHES WERE NEAR ELLICOTTVILLE WITH MORE THUNDERSTORMS WEST OF LITTLE VALLEY AND MOVING TOWARD ELLICOTTVILLE. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4227 7901 4202 7904 4200 7840 4234 7834 $$ PACE
000 WGUS71 KBUF 090140 FFSBUF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 937 PM EDT WED JUN 8 2005 NYC009-090147- CATTARAUGUS NY- 937 PM EDT WED JUN 8 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... THE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH PRODUCED THE THREAT OF FLOODING HAVE WEAKENED. THERE IS NO LONGER A THREAT OF FLOODING...THUS THE FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4227 7901 4202 7904 4200 7840 4234 7834 $$ PACE
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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.