Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 11, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 8, 2005, 11:18 AM EDT for Livingston 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 8, 2005, 11:18 AM EDT (15:18 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 8, 2005, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Livingston County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 3.3 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 409 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 770 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 20 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 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 081521 FFWBUF NYC051-081815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1118 AM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 1110 AM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED STREET FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO GENESEO... GROVELAND AND MOUNT MORRIS. BUFFALO RADAR INDICATED RAINFALL RATES OF UP TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR NEAR GENESEO AND LIVONIA. 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. 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 4291 7764 4261 7762 4257 7795 4290 7789 $$ PACE
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KBUF 081617 FFSBUF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1212 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005 NYC051-081815- LIVINGSTON NY- 1212 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR LIVINGSTON COUNTY... AT 1204 PM EDT...A TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTER REPORTED 2 INCHES OF RAIN NEAR GENESEO. RADAR INDICATED THE HEAVIEST RAINS HAVE FALLEN BETWEEN YORK AVON...LIVONIA AND GENESEO AND NEAR JAYCOX CREEK. RADAR IS INDICATING THE HEAVIER RAIN HAS MOVED TO THE WESTERN HALF OF THE COUNTY BUT FLOODING IS STILL POSSIBLE THROUGH 215 PM. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR OCCURRING. IF YOU ARE IN THE WARNING AREA MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND IMMEDIATELY. RESIDENTS LIVING ALONG STREAMS AND CREEKS SHOULD TAKE IMMEDIATE PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS SWIFTLY FLOWING WATERS OR WATERS OF UNKNOWN DEPTH BY FOOT OR BY AUTOMOBILE. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO. LAT...LON 4291 7764 4261 7762 4257 7795 4290 7789 $$ PACE
000 WGUS71 KBUF 081818 FFSBUF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 217 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005 NYC051-081827- LIVINGSTON NY- 217 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LIVINGSTON COUNTY EXPIRED AT 215 PM EDT... AT 217 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED...THUS THE FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. LAT...LON 4291 7764 4261 7762 4257 7795 4290 7789 $$ APB
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.