Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1990
Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Feb 16, 1990, 5:00 AM EST for Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 13 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 16, 1990, 5:00 AM EST (10:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 16, 1990, 6:00 PM EST
- In force
- 13 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 563 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 82 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 270 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 16, 5:00 AM EST | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 13 hr |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1990Every flash flood warning in 1990
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.