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Lakeshore Flood Warning 17, NWS Buffalo, NY

December 18, 2019Cayuga County, Oswego County, Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lakeshore flood warning at Dec 18, 2019, 3:39 AM EST for Cayuga County, Oswego County, Wayne County, New York. It took effect at Dec 18, 2019, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 8 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 18, 2019, 3:39 AM EST (08:39 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 18, 2019, 4:00 PM EST
Expired: Dec 19, 2019, 12:01 AM EST
In force: 8 hr
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:38 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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 678 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 93 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 57 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -69 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 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 18, 3:36 AM EST, 3 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 18, 3:36 AM EST, 3 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
Dec 18, 3:44 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Wyoming	61 min
Dec 18, 6:30 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	60 min
Dec 18, 7:18 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Monroe	57 min
Dec 18, 7:32 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego	58 min
Dec 18, 7:47 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie, Genesee, Wyoming	43 min
Dec 18, 8:31 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie, Livingston, Ontario, Wyoming	44 min
Dec 18, 8:35 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis, Oswego	55 min
Dec 18, 9:38 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis, Oswego	112 min
Dec 18, 10:05 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Monroe, Niagara, Orleans	85 min
Dec 18, 11:08 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Wayne	97 min
Dec 18, 11:38 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BUF	Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario	67 min
Dec 18, 11:41 AM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Ontario, Wayne	64 min
Dec 18, 12:13 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis, Oswego	47 min
Dec 18, 12:48 PM EST	Snow Squall Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Wayne	37 min
Dec 18, 1:19 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	86 min
Dec 18, 1:46 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	119 min
Dec 18, 2:36 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Niagara, Orleans	84 min
Dec 18, 3:42 PM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	17 hr
Dec 18, 3:44 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	106 min
Dec 18, 5:38 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	82 min
Dec 18, 6:52 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Wayne	53 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.