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Lakeshore Flood Advisory 2, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lakeshore flood advisory at Mar 27, 2016, 8:47 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York. It took effect at Mar 28, 2016, 8:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2016, 8:47 PM EDT (00:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 28, 2016, 8:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2016, 4:31 PM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- 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 00:53 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 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 250 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
- 3 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2208 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 189 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 8:47 PM EDT | Wind Advisory | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 10 more | 29 hr |
| Mar 27, 8:54 PM EDT | Gale Warning | BUF | 29 hr | |
| Mar 28, 4:11 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 27 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.