Flash Flood, Chautauqua
- When
- August 15, 1:30 AM EST to 4:30 AM EST
- Where
- Chautauqua County, Silver Creek
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 42.303, -79.406 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in New York, August 15, 2000
Thunderstorms along the Lake Erie shore produced torrential rains. The County Sheriff reported road and basement flooding in Silver Creek and Irving.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS BUF wrote it up.
Thunderstorms along the Lake Erie shore produced torrential rains. The County Sheriff reported road and basement flooding in Silver Creek and Irving.
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 06:32 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Surf in California, August 15, 2000
- Wildfire in Montana, August 15 to 31, 2000
- Damaging Winds in New York, August 15, 2000
- High Wind in Alaska, August 15 to 16, 2000
- Flash Flood in Wyoming, August 15, 2000
- High Wind in Michigan, August 15, 2000
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in Florida, August 15, 2000
- Waterspouts in Florida, August 15, 2000
- Lightning Strikes in California, August 15 to 17, 2000
- Rip Currents in American Samoa, August 15 to 18, 2000
- Extreme Cold in Alabama, August 15, 2000
- Wildfire in Wyoming, August 15 to 31, 2000
More
Every storm in New York in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, August 2000
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5170615.