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Flash Flood Warning 12, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 13, 2005, 8:47 PM EDT for Allegany 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 13, 2005, 8:47 PM EDT (00:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2005, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Allegany County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 1400 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -68 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1507 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 4 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 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 140052 FFWBUF NYC003-140345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 847 PM EDT WED JUL 13 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... ALLEGANY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 1145 PM EDT * AT 846 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE OVER AND EAST OF THE GENESEE VALLEY FROM WELLSVILLE TO BELFAST...MOVING SLOWLY NORTH AT ONLY 10 MPH. FLOODING FROM SIDE CREEKS ALONG THE GENESEE RIVER IS LIKELY...ESPECIALLY BETWEEN WELLSVILLE AND SCIO. VANDERMARK AND DYKE CREEKS ARE MOST LIKELY TO PRODUCE FLOODING. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO ALFRED...BELFAST AND HOUGHTON. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES AS WELL AS COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO. LAT...LON 4201 7777 4200 7806 4250 7822 4245 7777 $$ HIBBERT
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KBUF 140159 FFSBUF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 959 PM EDT WED JUL 13 2005 NYC003-140209- ALLEGANY NY- 959 PM EDT WED JUL 13 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ALLEGANY COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 959 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD DISSIPATED...THUS THE FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4201 7777 4200 7806 4250 7822 4245 7777 $$ HIBBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 1:31 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 59 min | |
| Jul 14, 2:43 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 62 min | |
| Jul 14, 8:55 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 35 min |
| Jul 14, 8:57 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 64 min |
| Jul 14, 3:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 49 min |
| Jul 14, 3:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 46 min | |
| Jul 14, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 42 min |
| Jul 14, 4:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 57 min | |
| Jul 14, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 30 min |
| Jul 14, 5:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee | 52 min |
| Jul 14, 5:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Lewis | 3 hr |
| Jul 14, 6:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 37 min |
| Jul 14, 7:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 59 min |
| Jul 14, 7:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Monroe | 3 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.