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Frost Advisory 13, NWS Buffalo, NY

October 7, 2008Cayuga County, Ontario County, Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this frost advisory at Oct 7, 2008, 3:06 PM EDT for Cayuga County, Ontario County, Wayne County, New York. It took effect at Oct 8, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 7, 2008, 3:06 PM EDT (19:06 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 8, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT
Expired: Oct 8, 2008, 6:34 AM EDT
In force: 4 hr
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:11 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 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 142 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: 1320 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 36 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WWUS71 KBUF 071906
NPWBUF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
306 PM EDT TUE OCT 7 2008

...A FROSTY NIGHT TONIGHT...

.HIGH PRESSURE WITH LIGHT WINDS WILL MAKE FROST LIKELY TONIGHT.

NYZ004-005-014-080315-
/O.NEW.KBUF.FR.Y.0013.081008T0700Z-081008T1300Z/
WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-ONTARIO-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWARK...FAIR HAVEN...CANANDAIGUA
306 PM EDT TUE OCT 7 2008

...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM EDT WEDNESDAY...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A FROST
ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM EDT WEDNESDAY. 

TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO DIP INTO THE MID 30S TONIGHT WITH
FROST LIKELY IN THE COLDER AREAS.

A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
DURING THE GROWING SEASON. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS IN
THE WARNED AREA ARE ADVISED TO HARVEST OR 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 080207
NPWBUF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1007 PM EDT TUE OCT 7 2008

...A FROSTY NIGHT TONIGHT...

.HIGH PRESSURE WITH LIGHT WINDS WILL MAKE FROST LIKELY TONIGHT.

NYZ004-005-014-081015-
/O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0013.081008T0700Z-081008T1300Z/
WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-ONTARIO-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWARK...FAIR HAVEN...CANANDAIGUA
1007 PM EDT TUE OCT 7 2008

...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM EDT
WEDNESDAY...

A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM EDT
WEDNESDAY. 

TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO DIP INTO THE MID 30S TONIGHT WITH
FROST LIKELY IN THE COLDER AREAS.

A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
DURING THE GROWING SEASON. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS IN
THE WARNED AREA ARE ADVISED TO HARVEST OR PROTECT TENDER
VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD
BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD.

$$

TMA

000 
WWUS71 KBUF 080804
NPWBUF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
404 AM EDT WED OCT 8 2008


NYZ004-005-014-081300-
/O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-081008T1300Z/
WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-ONTARIO-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWARK...FAIR HAVEN...CANANDAIGUA
404 AM EDT WED OCT 8 2008

...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EDT THIS MORNING...

A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EDT THIS MORNING. 

LOW TEMPERATURES WILL BOTTOM OUT IN THE MID 30S ACROSS PORTIONS OF
THE NORTHERN FINGER LAKES EARLY THIS MORNING. THIS WILL LEAD TO
THE DEVELOPMENT OF AREAS OF FROST. THE FROST IS MOST LIKELY IN LOW
LYING RURAL AREAS WHICH ARE TYPICALLY COOLER THAN URBAN AREAS.

A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP
DURING THE GROWING SEASON. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS IN
THE WARNED AREA ARE ADVISED TO HARVEST OR PROTECT TENDER
VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD
BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD.

$$

HITCHCOCK

000 
WWUS71 KBUF 081034
NPWBUF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
634 AM EDT WED OCT 8 2008

NYZ004-005-014-081145-
/O.CAN.KBUF.FR.Y.0013.000000T0000Z-081008T1300Z/
WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-ONTARIO-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...NEWARK...FAIR HAVEN...CANANDAIGUA
634 AM EDT WED OCT 8 2008

...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS CANCELLED THE FROST
ADVISORY. 

THICKENING CLOUDS AND SOME LIGHT WIND WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO
QUICKLY CLIMB THROUGH THE 30S AND INTO THE LOWER 40S EARLY THIS
MORNING. ANY FROST WHICH FORMED OVERNIGHT WILL DISSIPATE BY 7 AM
IN MOST AREAS. THEREFORE THE FROST ADVISORY HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

$$

HITCHCOCK

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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.