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Areal Flood Advisory 8, NWS Buffalo, NY

March 9, 2011Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this areal flood advisory at Mar 9, 2011, 9:41 PM EST for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 9, 2011, 9:41 PM EST (02:41 UTC)
Expired
Mar 9, 2011, 10:12 PM EST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Oswego County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:43 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 212 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 2011-03-10Temperature 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 2011-03-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 307 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1112 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
307 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
648 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 9, 10:15 PM ESTAreal Flood AdvisoryBUFOswego44 hr
Mar 10, 3:48 PM ESTRiver Flood WarningBUFCattaraugus42 hr

Nearby

Areal Flood Advisories in New York, 2011Every areal flood advisory in 2011

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.