Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 9, 2005, 10:54 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2005, 10:54 PM EDT (02:54 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2005, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Erie County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:57 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 11:45 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Orchard Park, NY | EAST BRANCH SMOKE CREEK OVERFLOWED BANKS |
| Jun 9, 11:45 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Orchard Park, NY | ELLICOTT ROAD CLOSED BETWEEN ROUTE 277 AND SOUTH FREEMAN ROAD |
| Jun 9, 11:45 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Orchard Park, NY | FLOODING ON JEWITT HOLMWOOD ROAD BEWTEEN FREEMAN AND DAVIS ROADS |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 1026 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1597 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 17 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 19 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 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 100256
FFWBUF
NYC029-100600-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1054 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
* UNTIL 200 AM EDT
* AT 1052 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
FLASH FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ELMA
CENTER TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF WALES CENTER...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
FROM EAST AURORA TO 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EAST AURORA...MOVING EAST
AT 5 MPH.
* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
EAST AURORA...HAMBURG...LANCASTER...ELMA AND MARILLA.
RADAR INDICATES RAINFALL RATES OF 1.5 TO 2 INCHES AN HOUR.
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.
LAT...LON 4293 7890 4257 7891 4258 7850 4278 7850
4297 7848
$$
PACE1 follow-up statement
000
WGUS71 KBUF 100356
FFSBUF
FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1148 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005
NYC029-100600-
ERIE NY-
1148 PM EDT THU JUN 9 2005
...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 200 AM EDT FOR ERIE
COUNTY...
AT 1145 PM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED FLASH
FLOODING FROM THUNDERSTORMS IN THE ORCHARD PARK AREA. THE EAST
BRANCH OF SMOKES CREEK HAD GONE OVER ITS BANK AROUND 1145 PM WITH
ELLICOTT ROAD CLOSED BETWEEN ROUTE 277 AND SOUTH FREEMAN. FLOODING
OF OTHER ROADS IN THE ORCHARD PARK AREA OCCURRED AROUND 1115 PM.
MORE STORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST ACROSS THE SOUTHTOWNS AREA
AND SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY THROUGH 2 AM.
RAINFALL RATES OF AN INCH AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE.
EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...URBAN AREAS...HIGHWAYS...STREETS AND UNDERPASSES
AS WELL AS OTHER DRAINAGE AREAS AND LOW LYING SPOTS.
DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
LAT...LON 4293 7890 4257 7891 4258 7850 4278 7850
4297 7848
$$
PACEThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 8:47 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 3 hr |
| Jun 9, 9:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 97 min | |
| Jun 9, 11:34 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 4 hr |
| Jun 10, 1:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Erie | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 12:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Livingston, Monroe | 4 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Lewis | 118 min |
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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.