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Freezing Rain Advisory 6, NWS Buffalo, NY

December 27, 2008Lewis County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this freezing rain advisory at Dec 27, 2008, 3:58 AM EST for Lewis County, New York. It was in force for 2 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 27, 2008, 3:58 AM EST (08:58 UTC)
Expired: Dec 27, 2008, 6:00 AM EST
In force: 2 hr
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Lewis County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:00 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 179 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: 859 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 71 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 279 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 556 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 freezing rain 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 freezing rain advisory went out at Dec 27, 2:53 AM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 27, 2:53 AM EST, 1 hour 5 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 26, 9:20 PM EST, 6 hours 38 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 27, 6:07 AM EST	Freezing Rain Advisory	BUF	Lewis	3 hr
Dec 27, 7:06 AM EST	Flood Watch	BUF	Erie	3 hr
Dec 27, 8:10 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BUF	Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans and 1 more	14 hr
Dec 27, 8:23 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BUF	Erie	21 hr
Dec 27, 8:23 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BUF	Erie, Wyoming	21 hr
Dec 27, 8:23 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BUF	Erie, Wyoming	21 hr
Dec 27, 8:27 AM EST	River Flood Warning	BUF	Erie, Genesee	11 hr
Dec 27, 8:48 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BUF	Cayuga, Livingston, Ontario, Wayne	4 hr
Dec 27, 9:25 AM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	3 hr
Dec 27, 3:10 PM EST	Lakeshore Flood Watch	BUF	Erie	13 hr
Dec 27, 3:25 PM EST	High Wind Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Jefferson, Lewis and 8 more	30 hr
Dec 27, 3:25 PM EST	Wind Advisory	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Livingston, Ontario, Wayne	27 hr
Dec 27, 3:28 PM EST	River Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Wyoming	4 hr
Dec 27, 3:34 PM EST	Gale Warning	BUF		34 hr
Dec 27, 4:06 PM EST	Areal Flood Advisory	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego	6 hr
Dec 27, 5:12 PM EST	Areal Flood Warning	BUF	Allegany, Wyoming	6 hr

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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.