Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 26, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Aug 8, 1996, 10:34 AM EDT for Wayne 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
- Aug 8, 1996, 10:34 AM EDT (14:34 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1996, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 2 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Wayne County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 081434 FFWBUF NYC055-073-117-081700- BULLETIN...EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED FLOOD WARNING...EXTENSION... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1034 AM EDT THU AUG 8 1996 THE FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL 100 PM THIS AFTERNOON FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING WESTERN NEW YORK COUNTIES... ...ORLEANS...MONROE...WAYNE... HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS HAVE POUNDED THE LAKESHORE COUNTIES TO THE SOUTH OF LAKE ONTARIO THIS MORNING. WIDESPREAD FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED FROM PORTIONS OF ORLEANS AND WAYNE COUNTIES FROM TWO TO FOUR INCHES OF RAIN IN LESS THAN A THREE HOUR PERIOD. THE ACTIVITY HAS DECREASED IN INTENSITY AND BEGUN MOVING SOUTH OF THE AFFECTED AREAS AS OF 1020 AM. STILL...MORE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THESE COUNTIES FROM TIME TO TIME THROUGH MIDDAY AND WILL AGGRAVATE THE FLOODING SITUATION. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO A2LLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY. MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. MCLAUGHLIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 8:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Monroe, Orleans | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 8:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Monroe, Orleans | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 1:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 2:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 81 min |
| Aug 8, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara, Orleans | 75 min |
| Aug 8, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Niagara | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 5:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 88 min |
| Aug 8, 5:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Orleans | 88 min |
| Aug 8, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 58 min |
Nearby
Flash Flood Warnings in New York, 1996Every 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.