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Flash Flood Warning 13, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 10, 1996Ontario County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 10, 1996, 5:16 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 10, 1996, 5:16 PM EDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired
May 10, 1996, 6:20 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Ontario County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 1996-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1996-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 123 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
116 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 8:45 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFChautauqua2 hr
May 10, 4:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFCattaraugus, Erie, Genesee, Wyoming94 min
May 10, 4:26 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFChautauqua94 min
May 10, 5:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOntario64 min

Nearby

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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.