Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2005

Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 10, 2005Lewis County, New York

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.

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.

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2005-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 769 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2005-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 9, 8:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFWyoming3 hr
Jun 9, 9:38 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF97 min
Jun 9, 10:54 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFErie3 hr
Jun 9, 11:34 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFWyoming4 hr
Jun 10, 1:53 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFErie3 hr
Jun 10, 12:35 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFLivingston, Monroe4 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.