Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2005, 6:02 PM EDT for Lewis County, New York. It was in force for 118 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 10, 2005, 6:02 PM EDT (22:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 10, 2005, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 118 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Lewis County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 178 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
- 769 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 23 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 87 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WGUS51 KBUF 102203 FFWBUF NYC049-110000- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 602 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... LEWIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 559 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED FLASH FLOODING FROM A THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF INDIAN RIVER...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. * THE STORM PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING WILL OTHERWISE REMAIN OVER MAINLY RURAL AREAS OF THE INDICATED COUNTY. RADAR INDICATES RAINFALL RATES OF MORE THAN 2.5 INCHES AN HOUR. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL WILL CAUSE FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...COUNTRY ROADS...AS WELL AS FARMLAND ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS. IN HILLY TERRAIN THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF LOW WATER CROSSINGS WHICH ARE POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS IN HEAVY RAIN. 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 4402 7535 4381 7542 4369 7510 4399 7513 $$ PACE
1 follow-up statement
000 WGUS71 KBUF 102350 FFSBUF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 748 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 NYC049-102358- LEWIS NY- 748 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR LEWIS COUNTY IS CANCELLED... AT 748 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE AREA...THUS THE FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. LOCAL RAINFALL OF TWO TO THREE INCHES WAS INDICATED IN LESS THAN AN HOUR AROUND 6 PM IN THE RURAL AREA ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CROGHAN NEAR THE NUMBER FOUR ROAD. LAT...LON 4402 7535 4381 7542 4369 7510 4399 7513 $$ MCLAUGHLIN
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, 12:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Livingston, Monroe | 4 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2005Every flash flood warning in 2005
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.