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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 12, 2006, 1:39 PM EDT for Cayuga County, Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr. 4 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
- Jul 12, 2006, 1:39 PM EDT (17:39 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2006, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cayuga County, NY, Wayne County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 127 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 3:05 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Conquest, NY | 2 TO 3 INCHES OF WATER OVER ROUTE 38 IN CONQUEST |
| Jul 12, 3:05 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Conquest, NY | ROAD CLOSED DUE TO WATER OVER ROUTE 38 IN CONQUEST |
| Jul 12, 3:13 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | 5 N Clyde, NY | NUMEROUS SECONDARY ROADS CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING |
| Jul 12, 4:05 PM EDT | FLASH FLOOD | Wolcott, NY | MANY STREETS CLOSED. STATE OF EMERGENCY. |
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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 139 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
- 21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -44 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 560 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 235 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 121742 FFWBUF NYC011-117-122045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 139 PM EDT WED JUL 12 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR... WAYNE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK... CAYUGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK... * UNTIL 445 PM EDT. * AT 133 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. * LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WILLIAMSON...ONTARIO...MARION...SODUS...CLYDE AND CATO. THE HEAVY RAIN IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE OFF AND ON FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. 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. 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. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4306 7731 4309 7652 4332 7662 4325 7734 $$ APB
2 follow-up statements
000 WGUS71 KBUF 121920 FFSBUF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 320 PM EDT WED JUL 12 2006 NYC011-117-122045- WAYNE NY-CAYUGA NY- 320 PM EDT WED JUL 12 2006 ...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 445 PM EDT FOR CAYUGA AND WAYNE COUNTIES... AT 300 PM EDT...LOCAL HIGHWAY DEPARTMENTS REPORTED FLOODING OVER THE WARNED AREA. LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO WILLIAMSON... ONTARIO...MERIDIAN AND SODUS. 2.63 INCHES OF RAIN HAS BEEN REPORTED IN WEBSTER. ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF .75 ARE POSSIBLE IN THE WARNED AREA AS HEAVY RAIN CONTINUES. EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM HEAVY RAINFALL IS CAUSING FLOODING OF SMALL CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS...STREAMS AND OTHER LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLOODING. ROADWAYS IN CONQUEST AND MERIDIAN IN CAYUGA COUNTY WERE FLOODED. NUMEROUS SECONDARY ROADS WERE CLOSED NORTH OF CLYDE IN WAYNE COUNTY. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. LAT...LON 4306 7731 4309 7652 4332 7662 4325 7734 $$ APB
000 WGUS71 KBUF 122050 FFSBUF FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 447 PM EDT WED JUL 12 2006 NYC011-117-122057- WAYNE NY-CAYUGA NY- 447 PM EDT WED JUL 12 2006 ...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS EXPIRED FOR CAYUGA AND WAYNE COUNTIES... AT 447 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE HEAVIEST STORMS HAVE MOVED EAST OF THE AREA. CURRENT FLOOD PROBLEMS WILL LIKELY CONTINUE FOR AWHILE HOWEVER GRADUAL IMPROVEMENT IS EXPECTED. PONDING OF LOW LYING AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS WILL LAST FOR AWHILE UNTIL THE WATER HAS TIME TO RUN OFF. LAT...LON 4306 7731 4309 7652 4332 7662 4325 7734 $$ SAGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 12:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Monroe, Orleans | 3 hr |
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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.