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Flash Flood Warning 9, NWS Buffalo, NY

April 23, 1996Jefferson County, Lewis County, Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Apr 23, 1996, 10:13 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Lewis County, Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 7 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, 10:13 PM EDT (02:13 UTC)
Expired
Apr 24, 1996, 5:00 AM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Oswego County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 205 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, Albany, 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 00:00Z on 1996-04-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -90 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
538 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
68 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
21 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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, 8:51 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFChautauqua, Erie3 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.