Alert archive / New York / Areal Flood Advisories in 2008
Areal Flood Advisory 13, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this areal flood advisory at Jul 24, 2008, 12:10 AM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 24, 2008, 12:10 AM EDT (04:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 24, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:11 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 8341 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 55 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood advisory went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Buffalo, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this areal flood advisory went out at Jul 23, 9:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 23, 9:32 PM EDT, 2 hours 38 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 3:48 PM EDT, 8 hours 22 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 348 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 NYZ002>008-011>014-021-242000- ORLEANS-MONROE-WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-JEFFERSON-LEWIS-GENESEE- WYOMING-LIVINGSTON-ONTARIO-ALLEGANY- 348 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 737 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BUFFALO CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BUF LEZ020-040-041-LOZ042-062-SLZ022-024-242000- UPPER NIAGARA RIVER AND BUFFALO HARBOR- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM RIPLEY TO DUNKIRK- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM DUNKIRK TO BUFFALO- LAKE ONTARIO NEARSHORE WATERS FROM THE NIAGARA RIVER TO HAMLIN BEACH- LAKE ONTARIO OPEN WATERS FROM THE NIAGARA RIVER TO HAMLIN BEACH- SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER FROM CAPE VINCENT TO OGDENSBURG- SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER FROM OGDENSBURG TO SAINT REGIS- 348 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE ERIE...LAKE ONTARIO AND SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BUFFALO CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BUF LOZ043>045-063>065-242000- LAKE ONTARIO NEARSHORE WATERS FROM HAMLIN BEACH TO SODUS BAY- LAKE ONTARIO NEARSHORE WATERS FROM SODUS BAY TO MEXICO BAY- LAKE ONTARIO NEARSHORE WATERS FROM MEXICO BAY TO THE SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER-LAKE ONTARIO OPEN WATERS FROM HAMLIN BEACH TO SODUS BAY- LAKE ONTARIO OPEN WATERS FROM SODUS BAY TO MEXICO BAY- LAKE ONTARIO OPEN WATERS FROM MEXICO BAY TO THE SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER- 348 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 737 IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE ONTARIO. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BUFFALO CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BUF NYZ001-010-019-020-085-242000- NIAGARA-NORTHERN ERIE-CHAUTAUQUA-CATTARAUGUS-SOUTHERN ERIE- 348 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BUFFALO CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BUF
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jul 23, 8:33 PM EDT, 3 hours 37 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
833 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0358 PM TSTM WND DMG GATES 43.16N 77.70W
07/23/2008 MONROE NY PUBLIC
TREES DOWN
0358 PM HEAVY RAIN GATES 43.16N 77.70W
07/23/2008 MONROE NY PUBLIC
MEASURED 3.25 INCHES OF RAIN
&&
DTHOMASSpecial weather statement, Jul 23, 10:38 PM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1038 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 NYZ019-240400- CHAUTAUQUA NY- 1038 PM EDT WED JUL 23 2008 ...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAINFALL DEVELOPING OVER CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY... * AT 1033 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED FROM NEAR FINDLEY LAKE TO BETWEEN MAYVILLE AND WESTFIELD AND WERE NEARLY STATIONARY. ADDITIONAL AREAS OF HEAVY RAIN ARE AFFECTING MUCH OF THE SOUTHWEST PORTION OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME...AND COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. USE CAUTION AND BE ALERT FOR WATER ON ROADWAYS...WHICH IS ESPECIALLY DIFFICULT TO DETECT AT NIGHT. NEVER DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED ROADS...REMEMBER TURN AROUND DONT DROWN. HITCHCOCK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 8:07 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Jefferson | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 2:13 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 10:13 AM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 3 hr |
| Jul 24, 12:42 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Monroe | 72 min |
| Jul 24, 1:26 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 2 hr |
| Jul 24, 2:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 58 min |
| Jul 24, 2:20 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 55 min | |
| Jul 24, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis | 54 min |
| Jul 24, 3:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 61 min | |
| Jul 24, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 32 min |
| Jul 24, 3:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 63 min | |
| Jul 24, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Orleans | 39 min |
| Jul 24, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 29 min | |
| Jul 24, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Erie, Wyoming | 61 min |
| Jul 24, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 34 min | |
| Jul 24, 5:16 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 59 min | |
| Jul 24, 6:04 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 5 hr |
| Jul 24, 6:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 114 min |
Nearby
Areal Flood Advisories in New York, 2008Every areal flood advisory in 2008
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.