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Lakeshore Flood Warning 2, NWS Buffalo, NY

November 26, 2025Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lakeshore flood warning at Nov 26, 2025, 1:45 PM EST for Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York. It took effect at Nov 26, 2025, 2:00 PM EST. It was in force for 13 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 26, 2025, 1:45 PM EST (18:45 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 26, 2025, 2:00 PM EST
Expired: Nov 27, 2025, 3:04 AM EST
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:47 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lakeshore flood warning 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 lakeshore flood warning went out at Nov 25, 6:55 PM EST, 18 hours 50 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 25, 6:55 PM EST, 18 hours 50 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 26, 1:35 AM EST	Lakeshore Flood Advisory	BUF	Chautauqua, Erie	12 hr

Nearby

Lakeshore Flood Warnings in New York, 2025 Every lakeshore flood warning in 2025

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.