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Areal Flood Warning 11, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this areal flood warning at Feb 21, 2014, 1:16 PM EST for Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York. It was in force for 3 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
- Feb 21, 2014, 1:16 PM EST (18:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 21, 2014, 4:15 PM EST
- In force
- 3 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Flood severity
- None
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 18:19 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, 6.3 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
- 809 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 483 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 475 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this areal flood warning 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 areal flood warning went out at Feb 21, 1:01 PM EST, 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 21, 1:01 PM EST, 15 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 11:02 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans and 1 more | 18 hr |
| Feb 21, 1:57 AM EST | River Flood Warning | BUF | Allegany, Erie, Jefferson, Lewis, Livingston, Wyoming | 277 days |
| Feb 21, 1:57 AM EST | River Flood Warning | BUF | Erie, Jefferson, Lewis, Monroe, Oneida, Ontario and 1 more | 277 days |
| Feb 21, 1:57 AM EST | River Flood Warning | BUF | Chautauqua, Erie, Lewis, Oneida, Wyoming | 277 days |
| Feb 21, 4:41 PM EST | Flood Watch | BUF | Chautauqua | 3 hr |
| Feb 21, 6:07 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | BUF | Erie | 16 hr |
| Feb 21, 6:12 PM EST | Areal Flood Warning | BUF | Chautauqua, Erie | 6 hr |
Nearby
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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.