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Flash Flood Warning 5, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 10, 2005Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2005, 1:53 AM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr. 1 report 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 10, 2005, 1:53 AM EDT (05:53 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2005, 5:00 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), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:54 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 10, 3:20 AM EDT	FLASH FLOOD	Cheektowaga, NY	UNDERPASS ON HIGHWAY 33 AT DICK ROAD CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING.

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, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 6 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KBUF 100556
FFWBUF
NYC029-100900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
153 AM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 500 AM EDT

* AT 149 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM OVER THE WARNED AREA.

* LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO AMHERST...
  WILLIAMSVILLE...TONAWANDA...SLOAN...LANCASTER...KENMORE...HARRIS
  HILL...DEPEW...CHEEKTOWAGA...BUFFALO...ALDEN AND AKRON.

HEAVY RAINFALL FROM STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE SOME FLOODING 
DURING THE OVERNIGHT. THE STORMS ARE MOVING SLOWLY OVER NORTHERN 
ERIE COUNTY AND WILL BRING RAINFALL TOTALS OF 3 INCHES OR MORE 
BEFORE ENDING BY 5 AM.

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 4300 7900 4279 7887 4280 7849 4307 7847
      4307 7872

$$


HIBBERT

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KBUF 100854
FFSBUF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
448 AM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005

NYC029-100900-
ERIE NY-
448 AM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR ERIE COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 500 AM... 

THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED AND FLOODING IS RECEDING.  THE UNDERPASS ON 
HIGHWAY 33 AT DICK ROAD WAS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING, AND IT IS LIKELY 
THAT FLOODING OCCURRED ELSEWHERE.  2.25 INCHES OF RAIN FELL AT THE 
AIRPORT.

A FLOOD WARNING FOR CAZENOVIA...BUFFALO AND CAYUGA CREEKS REMAINS IN 
EFFECT THROUGH THE MORNING.  THE CREEKS SHOULD CREST SLIGHTLY ABOVE 
FLOOD STAGE AROUND 8 AM.

DO NOT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED AREAS ON FOOT OR IN YOUR CAR. BE 
ESPECIALLY CAUTIOUS IN THE DARK EARLY MORNING HOURS WHEN IT IS 
HARDER TO RECOGNIZE THE DANGERS OF FLOODING. 

LAT...LON 4300 7900 4279 7887 4280 7849 4307 7847
      4307 7872

$$

APB

The 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, 10:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Erie	3 hr
Jun 9, 11:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Wyoming	4 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.