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Flash Flood Warning 4, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 2, 1994Genesee County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 2, 1994, 4:55 PM EDT for Genesee County, New York. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 2, 1994, 4:55 PM EDT (20:55 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 1994, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Genesee County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 42 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1994-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 640 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1994-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
640 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-28 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
669 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 3:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga49 min
Aug 2, 6:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus32 min

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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.