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Lakeshore Flood Advisory 2, NWS Buffalo, NY

March 1, 2017Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lakeshore flood advisory at Mar 1, 2017, 1:49 PM EST for Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York. It took effect at Mar 1, 2017, 5:00 PM EST. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 1, 2017, 1:49 PM EST (18:49 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 1, 2017, 5:00 PM EST
Expired
Mar 1, 2017, 11:42 PM EST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2017-03-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 57 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2017-03-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 184 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
57 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
984 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
279 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.2

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lakeshore flood advisory 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 advisory went out at Mar 1, 1:15 PM EST, 34 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 1:15 PM EST, 34 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 1, 5:54 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningBUF96 min
Mar 1, 6:26 AM ESTSpecial Marine WarningBUF94 min
Mar 1, 1:13 PM ESTHigh Wind WarningBUFCattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Jefferson, Monroe and 4 more15 hr
Mar 1, 6:32 PM ESTSpecial Weather StatementBUFAllegany73 min

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.