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Flash Flood Warning 2, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 15, 1995Cayuga County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 15, 1995, 7:20 PM EDT for Cayuga County, New York. It was in force for 3 hr.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Aug 15, 1995, 7:20 PM EDT (23:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 15, 1995, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Cayuga County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 1995-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 2165 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 1995-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 86 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
2165 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
807 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
86 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
92 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBGM 152319
FFWBGM
NYC011-160215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
720 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON NY HAS ISSUED A
FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1015 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
 
   ...S. CAYUGA COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR ESTIMATES ONE TO TWO INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN ACROSS
CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY...PRIMARILY FROM AUBURN SOUTH...
SINCE 6 PM. THE HEAVIEST RAIN HAS FALLEN FROM AURORA AND UNION SPRINGS
EAST TO OWASCO.
 
MORE THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE TO DEVELOP ACROSS YATES AND
SENECA COUNTIES...WITH LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE
ACROSS THIS AREA UNTIL AT LEAST 830 PM.  AN ADDITIONAL ONE TO TWO
INCHES OF RAIN IS EXPECTED.
 
A FLASH FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS OCCURRING OR IS
IMMINENT.  DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS
THE ROAD.  VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED
QUICKLY.  MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.
 
 
WALDSTREICHER

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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.