Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 2006
Flash Flood Warning 7, NWS Buffalo, NY
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe, Orleans | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 1:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 55 min | |
| Aug 2, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Wayne | 58 min |
| Aug 2, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 19 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.