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Lakeshore Flood Watch 3, NWS Buffalo, NY

April 22, 2012Monroe County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lakeshore flood watch at Apr 22, 2012, 10:09 AM EDT for Monroe County, New York. It took effect at Apr 23, 2012, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Apr 22, 2012, 10:09 AM EDT (14:09 UTC)
In effect from: Apr 23, 2012, 2:00 AM EDT
Expired: Apr 22, 2012, 6:39 PM EDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Monroe County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:14 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 90 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: 3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -1 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 489 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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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 Apr 22, 7:39 AM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 22, 7:39 AM EDT, 2 hours 30 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 22, 4:34 AM EDT	Gale Watch	BUF		11 hr
Apr 22, 4:34 AM EDT	Gale Warning	BUF		30 hr
Apr 22, 4:34 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BUF		3 days
Apr 22, 4:36 AM EDT	Winter Storm Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Jefferson and 7 more	47 hr
Apr 22, 3:38 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	BUF	Cayuga, Jefferson, Lewis, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans and 2 more	18 hr
Apr 22, 3:53 PM EDT	Winter Weather Advisory	BUF	Monroe, Niagara, Ontario, Orleans	18 hr
Apr 22, 6:39 PM EDT	Lakeshore Flood Warning	BUF	Monroe	15 hr

Nearby

Lakeshore Flood Watches in New York, 2012 Every 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.