Alert archive / New York / Flash Flood Warnings in 1996
Flash Flood Warning 8, NWS Buffalo, NY
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 23, 8:51 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Orleans | 3 hr |
| Apr 23, 10:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego | 7 hr |
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.