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Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Buffalo, NY

April 23, 1996Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 23, 1996, 8:51 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York. It was in force for 3 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
Apr 23, 1996, 8:51 PM EDT (00:51 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 1996, 12:00 AM EDT
In force
3 hr
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:54 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 55 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 00:00Z on 1996-04-24Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1996-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -42 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
513 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
83 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
209 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 240052
FFWBUF
NYC013-029-073-240400-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
851 PM EDT TUE APR 23 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS CONTINUED A FLOOD WARNING
FOR URBAN AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING UNTIL MIDNIGHT. COUNTIES INCLUDED 
ARE:

ORLEANS...ERIE...CHAUTAUQUA...

PERSISTENT RAINS WHICH BEGAN LATE MONDAY HAVE CAUSED SOME LOCALIZED 
FLOODING ACROSS PARTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK. THROUGH 800PM TODAY 1.26 
INCHES OF RAIN HAS FALLEN AT THE BUFFALO AIRPORT WITH REPORTS EARLIER 
THIS EVENING OF OVER 2 INCHES IN MAYVILLE...1.50 INCHES IN 
WILLIAMSVILLE...1.36 INCHES IN NORTH BUFFALO AND ANGOLA AND AN INCH 
IN SPRINGVILLE.

POLICE AGENCIES HAVE REPORTED ROAD CLOSINGS AND SOME FLOODING 
PROBLEMS IN JAMESTOWN...DUNKIRK...STOCKTON...SHERIDAN AND SILVER 
CREEK IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. ERIE COUNTY SHERIFF'S REPORTED ROADS 
CLOSED IN CLARENCE...NEWSTEAD AND ORCHARD PARK. IN ORLEANS COUNTY 
SOME FLOODING WAS REPORTED BY FIRE OFFICIALS IN THE VILLAGE OF HOLLY.

THE RAIN WILL MIX WITH OR CHANGE TO SNOW BEFORE IT BEGINS TO TAPER 
OFF BETWEEN 11PM AND MIDNIGHT.

SOME LOWLAND...STREET...BASEMENT AND SMALL STREAM FLOODING IS STILL 
POSSIBLE IN THESE COUNTIES UNTIL MIDNIGHT.

SIGNIFICANT RISES HAVE OCCURED ON MOST OF THE MAJOR CREEKS AND RIVERS 
IN WESTERN NEW YORK. THE BUFFALO CREEK AT GARDENVILLE HAS RISEN TO
6.5 FEET AND IT COULD APPROACH ITS FLOOD STAGE OF 7 FEET LATER 
TONIGHT. THE CREEKS LEVEL WILL BE MONITORED CLOSELY TONIGHT AND IF 
YOU LIVE ALONG THE CREEK YOU SHOULD LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND 
POSSIBLE WARNINGS.

A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING HAS BEEN REPORTED OR IS IMMINENT. 
ALL PERSONS WITH INTERESTS IN LOW LYING AREAS SHOULD TAKE THE 
NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS IMMEDIATELY.

PACE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 23, 8:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFOrleans3 hr
Apr 23, 10:13 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFJefferson, Lewis, Oswego7 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.