Alert archive / New York / Areal Flood Advisories in 2014
Areal Flood Advisory 5, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this areal flood advisory at May 13, 2014, 7:22 AM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2014, 7:22 AM EDT (11:22 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2014, 10:15 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 11:24 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 429 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -77 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1021 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 158 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 212 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
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 May 13, 7:00 AM EDT, 22 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, May 13, 7:00 AM EDT, 22 minutes before
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</html>Hazardous weather outlook, May 13, 5:38 AM EDT, 1 hour 44 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 538 AM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014 NYZ001>008-010>014-019>021-085-140945- NIAGARA-ORLEANS-MONROE-WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-JEFFERSON-LEWIS- NORTHERN ERIE-GENESEE-WYOMING-LIVINGSTON-ONTARIO-CHAUTAUQUA- CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY-SOUTHERN ERIE- 538 AM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT WILL BRING THE CHANCE FOR HEAVY RAINFALL THURSDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. THERE IS STILL CONSIDERABLE UNCERTAINTY IN THE TIMING OF THE FRONTAL PASSAGE...BUT THIS PATTERN HAS THE POTENTIAL TO CAUSE FLASH FLOODING. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 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 LEZ040-041-LOZ030-042>045-062>065-SLZ022-024-140945- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM RIPLEY TO DUNKIRK- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM DUNKIRK TO BUFFALO- LOWER NIAGARA RIVER- LAKE ONTARIO NEARSHORE WATERS FROM THE NIAGARA RIVER TO HAMLIN BEACH- 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 THE NIAGARA RIVER TO HAMLIN BEACH- 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- SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER FROM CAPE VINCENT TO OGDENSBURG- SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER FROM OGDENSBURG TO SAINT REGIS- 538 AM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF LAKE ERIE...LAKE ONTARIO AND SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. 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
Special weather statement, May 13, 5:10 AM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 510 AM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014 NYZ001-010-019-020-085-131100- NIAGARA-NORTHERN ERIE-CHAUTAUQUA-CATTARAUGUS-SOUTHERN ERIE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NIAGARA FALLS...BUFFALO...JAMESTOWN... OLEAN...ORCHARD PARK...SPRINGVILLE 510 AM EDT TUE MAY 13 2014 ...DOWNPOURS THIS MORNING... AT 510 AM A BAND OF HEAVY SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS IS SLOWLY MOVING ACROSS FAR WESTERN NEW YORK. THIS ACTIVITY IS PRODUCING RAINFALL BETWEEN HALF AND ONE AND A HALF INCHES. HEAVIER SHOWERS MAY PRODUCE POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING...AND PONDING OF WATER IN LOW LYING AREAS. THUNDERSTORMS WILL PRODUCE CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING AND POOR DRIVING VISIBILITIES. IF DRIVING THROUGH THE RAIN SHOWERS THIS MORNING...USE CAUTION AND ADJUST YOUR SPEED ACCORDINGLY. THIS ACTIVITY WILL CROSS NIAGARA FALLS...THE METRO BUFFALO AREA...HAMBURG...LITTLE VALLEY AND ALLEGANY STATE PARK BETWEEN 515 AM AND 715 AM. THOMAS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 5:57 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 6 hr |
| May 13, 6:47 AM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie | 3 hr |
| May 13, 7:10 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie | 5 hr |
Nearby
Areal Flood Advisories in New York, 2014Every areal flood advisory in 2014
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.