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Flash Flood Warning 6, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2005, 12:35 PM EDT for Livingston County, Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 4 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, 12:35 PM EDT (16:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2005, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Livingston County, NY, Monroe County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:39 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, 2:00 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Livonia, NY | ROADS FLOODED AND CLOSED. |
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 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 77 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
- 350 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 992 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KBUF 101638 FFWBUF NYC051-055-102030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1235 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK MONROE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 430 PM EDT * AT 1230 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH TORRENTIAL DOWPOURS THAT EXTENDED FROM GREECE TO MT MORRIS. THE ACTIVITY WAS MOVING VERY SLOWLY EASTWARD AT 10 TO 15 MPH. UP TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN AN HOUR IS LIKELY AS THESE STORMS MOVE THROUGH THE REGION. 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 THROUGH FLOODED AREAS. KEEP CHILDREN AWAY FROM SMALL STREAMS AND DRAINAGE DITCHES. DONT DROWN...TURN AROUND. LAT...LON 4329 7787 4264 7782 4271 7763 4336 7764 $$ NIZIOL
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KBUF 101836 FFSBUF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 230 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 NYC051-055-102030- LIVINGSTON NY-MONROE NY- 230 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 430 PM EDT FOR MONROE AND LIVINGSTON COUNTIES... AT 230 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE THUNDERSTORMS OVER MONROE AND LIVINGSTON COUNTIES PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAINFALL. AS THESE THUNDERSTORMS MOVE OFF TO THE EAST...ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP. SOME AREAS HAVE ALREADY EXPERIENCED RAINFALL RATES OF 1 TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO TRAVEL ACROSS FLOODED ROADS. FIND ALTERNATE ROUTES. IT ONLY TAKES A FEW INCHES OF SWIFTLY FLOWING WATER TO CARRY VEHICLES AWAY. TO REPORT FLOODING...HAVE THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO. LAT...LON 4329 7787 4264 7782 4271 7763 4336 7764 $$ ZAFF
000 WGUS71 KBUF 101915 FFSBUF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 315 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 NYC051-055-101925- LIVINGSTON NY-MONROE NY- 315 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR MONROE AND LIVINGSTON COUNTIES IS CANCELLED... AT 315 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE AREA...THUS THE FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LAT...LON 4329 7787 4264 7782 4271 7763 4336 7764 $$ ZAFF
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, 1:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Erie | 3 hr |
| Jun 10, 6:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Lewis | 118 min |
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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.