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Flash Flood Warning 14, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 10, 1996Erie County, Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1996, 4:33 PM EDT for Erie County, Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 87 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
Jun 10, 1996, 4:33 PM EDT (20:33 UTC)
Expired
Jun 10, 1996, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
87 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Erie County, NY, Niagara County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.6 hours before the alert went out and 5 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 1996-06-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 346 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 1996-06-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 83 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
346 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
83 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
65 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 KBUF 102031
FFWBUF
NYC029-063-102200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAMS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
433 PM EDT MON JUN 10 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAMS EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY AND NIAGARA COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR FROM BUFFALO AT 425 PM EDT
SHOWED SLOW MOVING STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY...
BETWEEN GETZVILLE AND SWORMVILLE...NORTH INTO NIAGARA COUNTY.

THE HEAVIEST RAIN WAS FALLING OVER NORTH AMHERST...NEAR TONOWANDA
CREEK.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH AT 10 TO 15 MPH.

THE STORMS WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF LOCKPORT...WRIGHTS CORNERS AND
NEWFANE BETWEEN 430 AND 530 PM.

A STORM SPOTTER IN EAST AMHERST REPORTED STREET FLOODING AND
ESTIMATED WIND GUSTS TO 35 MPH WITH THIS STORM. 

CONTINUED FLOODING OF STREETS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS IS LIKELY ACROSS
THE WARNED AREA INTO EARLY THIS EVENING.
 
LAMBERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 10, 7:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua57 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.