Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006

Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 2, 2006Cayuga County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 2006, 2:36 PM EDT for Cayuga County, New York. It was in force for 114 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
Aug 2, 2006, 2:36 PM EDT (18:36 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2006, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
114 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cayuga County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:39 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 199 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 2006-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1361 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 2006-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 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
1361 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
920 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
76 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
2.5

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The text

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

000 
WGUS51 KBUF 021840
FFWBUF
NYC011-022030-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
236 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 230 PM EDT...A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS QWITH TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS 
  EXTENDED FROM THE TOWN OF ONTARIO IN WAYNE COUNTY SOUTHEAST        
  THROUGH WEEDSPORT IN CAYUGA COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL TRAIN ACROSS 
  CAYUGA COUNTY JUST NORTH OF THE NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY OVER THE    
  NEXT HOUR OR SO.     

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.

IF YOU LIVE IN THIS AREA TAKE PRECAUTIONS TO MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND 
NOW. STAY AWAY FROM FAST FLOWING CREEKS AND STREAMS AND KEEP 
CHILDREN FROM DRAINAGE DITCHES AND CULVERTS. DO NOT DRIVE INTO 
FLOODED ROADWAYS.  TURN AROUND DONT DROWN.

LAT...LON 4324 7667 4303 7669 4279 7553 4306 7555

$$

NIZIOL
1 follow-up statement
000 
WGUS71 KBUF 021944
FFSBUF

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
341 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2006

NYC011-021951-
CAYUGA NY-
341 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2006

...THE FLASH FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED FOR CAYUGA COUNTY...

AT 341 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE AREA...THUS THE
FLOOD WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4324 7667 4303 7669 4279 7553 4306 7555

$$

NIZIOL

The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 1:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe, Orleans55 min
Aug 2, 1:35 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF55 min
Aug 2, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga, Wayne58 min
Aug 2, 3:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOswego19 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 2006Every flash flood warning in 2006

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.