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Flash Flood Warning 22, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 23, 1996Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jul 23, 1996, 2:58 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 2 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
Jul 23, 1996, 2:58 PM EDT (18:58 UTC)
Expired
Jul 23, 1996, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
2 hr
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Niagara County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:00 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 27 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 1996-07-23Temperature 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 1996-07-23The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 61 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1361 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 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 231900
FFWBUF
NYC063-232025-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
258 PM EDT TUE JUL 23 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...NIAGARA COUNTY
 
BUFFALO DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SERIES OF THUNDERSTORMS OVER
SOUTHERN NIAGARA COUNTY SLOWLY MOVING TO THE EAST AT 10 MPH.  THESE
STORMS HAVE PRODUCED HEAVY RAINFALL AT THE RATE OF OVER 1.5 INCHES PER
HOURS.
 
THE HEAVY RAINFALL AND SLOW MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS MAY RESULT
IN FLOODING OF ROAD INTERSECTIONS AND LOW-LYING AREAS.

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.