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Flash Flood Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY

January 23, 1997Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at Jan 23, 1997, 10:58 AM EST for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 8 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: Jan 23, 1997, 10:58 AM EST (15:58 UTC)
Expired: Jan 23, 1997, 7:00 PM EST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Erie County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:04 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 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 20 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 501 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 102 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 231555
FFWBUF
NYC029-241200-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1058 AM EST THU JAN 23 1997

...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A FLOOD WARNING FOR ICE 
JAM FLOODING FOR PEOPLE ALONG MUDDY CREEK IN THE TOWN OF EVANS AND 
ALONG CAZENOVIA CREEK NEAR CAZENOVIA PARK FOR THIS AFTERNOON AND 
EVENING...

YESTERDAY'S WARM TEMPERATURES CAUSED ENOUGH MELTING AND RUNOFF TO 
CAUSE ICE JAM FLOODING ALONG THESE CREEKS.

ALONG CAZENOVIA CREEK...SEVERAL EVACUATIONS HAVE BEEN REPORTED NEAR 
POTTERS ROAD AND WOODSIDE AVENUE IN CAZENOVIA PARK. THE ICE JAM ON 
CAZENOVIA CREEK EXTENDS FROM THE BRIDGE ON ORCHARD PARK ROAD NEAR 
SENECA STREET AND HARLEM ROAD...DOWNSTREAM SEVERAL MILES INTO THE 
CITY OF BUFFALO. FURTHER UPSTREAM THE CREEK IS RUNNING OPEN.

ALONG MUDDY CREEK...ABOUT 2 DOZEN HOMES ARE SURROUNDED BY WATER IN 
THE LAKE ERIE BEACH AREA IN THE TOWN OF EVANS. SOME EVACUATIONS HAVE 
BEEN REPORTED ALONG POINT BREEZE DRIVE AND COURT STREET AREAS WITH 
WATER ALSO REPORTED OVER PORTIONS OF DAWN AVENUE. THE ICE JAM IS AT 
THE MOUTH OF MUDDY CREEK AND EXTENDS UPSTREAM AND IS NOT EXPECTED TO 
MOVE.

THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT MUCH COLDER TEMPERATURES WILL CUT OFF ANY 
ADDITIONAL SNOWMELT RUNOFF THROUGH FRIDAY BUT MORE RAIN ALONG WITH 
WARMER TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED FRIDAY NIGHT WHICH WILL CREATE MORE 
RUNOFF AND INCREASE THE THREAT OF ADDITIONAL FLOODING FRIDAY NIGHT 
INTO SATURDAY.

A FLOOD WARNING MEANS FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR HAS BEEN REPORTED.
IF YOU LIVE IN THESE AREAS YOU SHOULD TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS 
TO PROTECT LIFE AND PROPERTY.

ANOTHER STATEMENT WILL BE ISSUED BY 4PM THIS AFTERNOON.

PACE

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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.