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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 15, NWS Buffalo, NY

October 14, 20064 counties in New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lake effect snow advisory at Oct 14, 2006, 10:15 AM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Oct 14, 2006, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 14, 2006, 10:15 AM EDT (14:15 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 14, 2006, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 14, 2006, 2:32 PM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY, Wyoming County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 12:00Z, 2.3 hours before the alert went out and 382 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: 16 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 939 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 79 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 lake effect snow 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 lake effect snow advisory went out at Oct 13, 5:52 PM EDT, 16 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 13, 5:52 PM EDT, 16 hours 23 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Oct 13, 11:03 AM EDT, 23 hours 12 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
Oct 14, 9:36 AM EDT	Lake Effect Snow Advisory	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Wyoming	39 min
Oct 14, 3:33 PM EDT	Lake Effect Snow Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego	18 hr
Oct 14, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		67 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.