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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 10, 1996Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 1996, 11:00 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York. It was in force for 6 hr. 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, 11:00 PM EDT (03:00 UTC)
Expired: Jun 11, 1996, 5:00 AM EDT
In force: 6 hr
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 59 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 110305
FFWBUF
NYC009-013-029-110900-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1100 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
500 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...WESTERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY
   ...CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
   ...SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY
 
THUNDERSTORMS THAT DEVELOPED LATE MONDAY AFTERNOON PRODUCED BETWEEN
ONE AND TWO INCHES OF RAIN OVER SOUTHERN ERIE...CHAUTAUQUA AND WESTERN
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY...ACCORDING TO SPOTTER REPORTS AND DOPPLER RADAR
RAINFALL ESTIMATES.

URBAN AND POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING WAS REPORTED BY STATE POLICE MONDAY
EVENING OVER PORTIONS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY.

ADDITIONAL THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN FORMING TO THE SOUTH...OVER PORTIONS
OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...AND MOVING NORTH INTO SOUTHWESTERN NEW YORK.

ADDITIONAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS OF ONE-HALF (.50) TO ONE AND ONE-HALF
(1.5) INCHES OF RAIN MAY FALL DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE OVERNIGHT
HOURS IN THE WARNED AREA.

THIS AMOUNT OF RAIN WILL BE ENOUGH TO CAUSE CONTINUED FLOODING OF
POOR DRAINAGE AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS....ESPECIALLY WHERE HEAVY RAINS
FELL LATE MONDAY.

THE RAINS ARE EXPECTED TO DIMINISH BY DAYBREAK TUESDAY...WITH A
GENERALLY RAIN FREE PERIOD FROM SUNRISE TUESDAY THROUGH THE EARLY
AFTERNOON.

MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL FORM AGAIN LATER TUESDAY AS LOW PRESSURE OVER
THE MIDWEST MOVES EAST TOWARD THE REGION.
 
IF FLOODING IS OBSERVED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND TO
ESCAPE FLOOD WATERS. DO NOT STAY IN AREAS SUBJECT TO FLOODING WHEN
WATER BEGINS RISING. IF YOU PLAN TO TRAVEL OVERNIGHT...BE ALERT FOR
WATER COVERING THE ROAD...AND NEVER ATTEMPT TO DRIVE THROUGH FLOODED
AREAS SINCE THE WATER DEPTH MAY TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOU TO CROSS
SAFELY.

LISTEN TO YOUR FAVORITE SOURCE OF NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE INFORMATION
FOR LATER UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SIDTUATION.

LAMBERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 8:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	2 hr
Jun 10, 9:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee, Wyoming	57 min
Jun 11, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	58 min
Jun 11, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	53 min

Nearby

Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1996 Every flash flood warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.