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Flash Flood Warning 16, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 6, 1998Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this flash flood warning at May 6, 1998, 5:24 PM EDT for Erie 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
May 6, 1998, 5:24 PM EDT (21:24 UTC)
Expired
May 6, 1998, 7:25 PM EDT
In force
2 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 21:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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, 9.4 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-05-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 5 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1998-05-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
768 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
15 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
42 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 062125
FFWBUF
NYC029-062325-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
524 PM EDT WED MAY 6 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A

* FLOOD WARNING FOR URBAN AREAS AND SMALL STREAMS FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 725 PM EDT

* AT 515 PM... SPOTTERS AND RADAR INDICATED A
THUNDERSTORM WITH   VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER CLARENCE...
 IT WAS NEARLY STATIONARY.

* THESE STORMS ARE PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS WHICH ARE CAUSING
SIGNIFICANT URBAN FLOODING.

IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS... MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND. DO NOT DRIVE
THROUGH WATER COVERING THE ROAD.

REMEMBER...A FLOOD WARNING MEANS THAT FLOODING IS IMMINENT OR
ALREADY OCCURRING. TAKE NECESSARY PRECAUTIONS TO PROTECT LIFE
AND PROPERTY.

SAGE

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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.