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Lakeshore Flood Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lakeshore flood warning at Dec 24, 2014, 12:40 PM EST for Chautauqua County, Erie County, Jefferson County, New York. It took effect at Dec 24, 2014, 10:00 PM EST. It was in force for 9 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
- Dec 24, 2014, 12:40 PM EST (17:40 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 24, 2014, 10:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 25, 2014, 6:54 AM EST
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY, Jefferson County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:41 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 335 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
- 667 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 240 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 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 lakeshore flood warning went out at Dec 24, 10:10 AM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 24, 10:10 AM EST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 24, 3:59 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 57 hr |
Nearby
Lakeshore Flood Warnings in New York, 2014Every lakeshore flood warning in 2014
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.