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Lake Effect Snow Watch 11, NWS Buffalo, NY

February 14, 2007Cayuga County, Oswego County, Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lake effect snow watch at Feb 14, 2007, 3:25 PM EST for Cayuga County, Oswego County, Wayne County, New York. It took effect at Feb 15, 2007, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 14, 2007, 3:25 PM EST (20:25 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 15, 2007, 4:00 PM EST
Expired
Feb 15, 2007, 3:45 AM EST
In force
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 20:29 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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 401 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2007-02-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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, Brookhaven, NY at 12:00Z on 2007-02-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 146 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
470 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
61 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
146 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
209 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 watch 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 watch went out at Feb 14, 1:36 PM EST, 1 hour 49 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 14, 1:36 PM EST, 1 hour 49 minutes before
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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 14, 3:25 PM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and 1 more19 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Watches in New York, 2007Every lake effect snow watch in 2007

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.