Alert archive / New York / Lakeshore Flood Watches in 2012
Lakeshore Flood Watch 1, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lakeshore flood watch at Feb 24, 2012, 3:38 AM EST for Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York. It took effect at Feb 24, 2012, 3:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 24, 2012, 3:38 AM EST (08:38 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 24, 2012, 3:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 24, 2012, 11:38 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
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 08:37 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, 8.6 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
- 752 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 65 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 190 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lakeshore flood watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Buffalo, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this lakeshore flood watch went out at Feb 23, 5:27 PM EST, 10 hours 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 23, 5:27 PM EST, 10 hours 11 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 23, 10:07 PM EST | Gale Watch | BUF | 5 hr | |
| Feb 24, 3:33 AM EST | Gale Warning | BUF | 42 hr | |
| Feb 24, 3:44 AM EST | Wind Advisory | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 7 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:54 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Oswego, Wyoming | 38 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:54 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Advisory | BUF | Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Lewis, Wayne and 1 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 24, 3:54 AM EST | Winter Storm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis | 28 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:04 AM EST | High Wind Warning | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 8 more | 13 hr |
| Feb 24, 11:38 AM EST | Lakeshore Flood Warning | BUF | Chautauqua, Erie | 11 hr |
Nearby
Lakeshore Flood Watches in New York, 2012Every lakeshore flood watch in 2012
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.