Alert archive / New York / Frost Advisories in 2008
Frost Advisory 1, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this frost advisory at Apr 30, 2008, 3:05 AM EDT for 10 counties in New York. It took effect at May 1, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 30, 2008, 3:05 AM EDT (07:05 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 1, 2008, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 1, 2008, 8:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Cayuga County, NY, Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Niagara County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Orleans County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Wayne County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 88 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 38 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -8 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 897 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 59 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS71 KBUF 300705 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 305 AM EDT WED APR 30 2008 ...FROST TONIGHT... .CLEARING SKIES WILL ALLOW FROST TO FORM TONIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GROWING SEASON. NYZ001>006-010-011-013-014-301515- /O.NEW.KBUF.FR.Y.0001.080501T0600Z-080501T1200Z/ NIAGARA-ORLEANS-MONROE-WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-NORTHERN ERIE- GENESEE-LIVINGSTON-ONTARIO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NIAGARA FALLS...MEDINA...ROCHESTER... NEWARK...FAIR HAVEN...OSWEGO...BUFFALO...BATAVIA...GENESEO... CANANDAIGUA 305 AM EDT WED APR 30 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT THURSDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT THURSDAY. CLEARING SKIES AND LIGHT SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL ALLOW FROST TO FORM LATER TONIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GROWING SEASON. CLOUDS MOVING IN FROM THE SOUTH AHEAD OF A WARM FRONT COULD INHIBIT THE FROST IF THEY MOVE FURTHER NORTH. A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. YOU SHOULD PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO, POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KBUF 301910 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 310 PM EDT WED APR 30 2008 ...FROST TONIGHT... .CLEARING SKIES WILL ALLOW FROST TO FORM TONIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GROWING SEASON. NYZ001>006-010-011-013-014-010315- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0001.080501T0600Z-080501T1200Z/ NIAGARA-ORLEANS-MONROE-WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-NORTHERN ERIE- GENESEE-LIVINGSTON-ONTARIO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NIAGARA FALLS...MEDINA...ROCHESTER... NEWARK...FAIR HAVEN...OSWEGO...BUFFALO...BATAVIA...GENESEO... CANANDAIGUA 310 PM EDT WED APR 30 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT THURSDAY... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT THURSDAY. CLEARING SKIES AND LIGHT SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL ALLOW FROST TO FORM LATER TONIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GROWING SEASON. CLOUDS MOVING IN FROM THE SOUTH AHEAD OF A WARM FRONT COULD INHIBIT THE FROST IF THEY MOVE FURTHER NORTH. A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. YOU SHOULD PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. $$
000 WWUS71 KBUF 010202 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1002 PM EDT WED APR 30 2008 ...FROST OVERNIGHT... .CLEARING SKIES WILL ALLOW FROST TO FORM OVERNIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GROWING SEASON. NYZ001>006-010-011-013-014-011015- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0001.080501T0600Z-080501T1200Z/ NIAGARA-ORLEANS-MONROE-WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-NORTHERN ERIE- GENESEE-LIVINGSTON-ONTARIO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NIAGARA FALLS...MEDINA...ROCHESTER... NEWARK...FAIR HAVEN...OSWEGO...BUFFALO...BATAVIA...GENESEO... CANANDAIGUA 1002 PM EDT WED APR 30 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT THURSDAY... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT THURSDAY. MAINLY CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL INTO THE LOWER 30S BY EARLY THURSDAY MORNING. THIS WILL ALLOW FROST TO FORM AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GROWING SEASON. A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. YOU SHOULD PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO...POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. $$ TMA
000 WWUS71 KBUF 010716 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 316 AM EDT THU MAY 1 2008 ...FROST OVERNIGHT... .CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS HAVE ALLOWED FROST TO FORM EARLY THIS MORNING AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GROWING SEASON. NYZ001>006-010-011-013-014-011200- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0001.000000T0000Z-080501T1200Z/ NIAGARA-ORLEANS-MONROE-WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-NORTHERN ERIE- GENESEE-LIVINGSTON-ONTARIO- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NIAGARA FALLS...MEDINA...ROCHESTER... NEWARK...FAIR HAVEN...OSWEGO...BUFFALO...BATAVIA...GENESEO... CANANDAIGUA 316 AM EDT THU MAY 1 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING. MAINLY CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS ALLOWED TEMPERATURES TO FALL INTO THE LOWER 30S EARLY THIS MORNING. THIS HAS ALLOWED FROST TO FORM AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GROWING SEASON. A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. YOU SHOULD PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO...POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. $$ SFM
Nearby
Frost Advisories in New York, 2008Every frost advisory in 2008
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.