Alert archive / New York / Frost Advisories in 2008
Frost Advisory 2, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this frost advisory at May 19, 2008, 3:56 PM EDT for 7 counties in New York. It took effect at May 20, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 4 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2008, 3:56 PM EDT (19:56 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 20, 2008, 3:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 20, 2008, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 4 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 56 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:54 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 564 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 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 191956 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 356 PM EDT MON MAY 19 2008 ...AREAS OF FROST OVERNIGHT... .CLEARING SKIES AND DIMINISHING WINDS WILL ALLOW AREAS OF FROST TO FORM OVERNIGHT. NYZ012>014-019>021-085-200400- /O.NEW.KBUF.FR.Y.0002.080520T0700Z-080520T1100Z/ WYOMING-LIVINGSTON-ONTARIO-CHAUTAUQUA-CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY- SOUTHERN ERIE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WARSAW...GENESEO...CANANDAIGUA... JAMESTOWN...OLEAN...WELLSVILLE...ORCHARD PARK...SPRINGVILLE 356 PM EDT MON MAY 19 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 7 AM EDT TUESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 7 AM EDT TUESDAY. CLEARING SKIES AND DIMINISHING WINDS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL INTO THE MID 30S OVERNIGHT. AREAS OF FROST ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN THE NORMALLY COLDER LOCATIONS. SOME DEEPER VALLEY LOCATIONS MAY SEE TEMPERATURES CLOSE TO THE FREEZING MARK BY DAYBREAK TUESDAY. 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. $$ TMA
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS71 KBUF 200156 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 956 PM EDT MON MAY 19 2008 ...AREAS OF FROST OVERNIGHT... .CLEARING SKIES AND DIMINISHING WINDS WILL ALLOW AREAS OF FROST TO FORM OVERNIGHT. NYZ012>014-019>021-085-201000- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0002.080520T0700Z-080520T1100Z/ WYOMING-LIVINGSTON-ONTARIO-CHAUTAUQUA-CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY- SOUTHERN ERIE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WARSAW...GENESEO...CANANDAIGUA... JAMESTOWN...OLEAN...WELLSVILLE...ORCHARD PARK...SPRINGVILLE 956 PM EDT MON MAY 19 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 7 AM EDT TUESDAY... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 7 AM EDT TUESDAY. CLEARING SKIES AND DIMINISHING WINDS WILL ALLOW TEMPERATURES TO FALL INTO THE MID 30S OVERNIGHT. AREAS OF FROST ARE EXPECTED LATE TONIGHT...ESPECIALLY IN THE NORMALLY COLDER LOCATIONS. SOME DEEPER VALLEY LOCATIONS MAY SEE TEMPERATURES CLOSE TO THE FREEZING MARK BY DAYBREAK TUESDAY. A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. THOSE WITH AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS IN THE WARNED AREA ARE ADVISED TO HARVEST OR PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. $$
000 WWUS71 KBUF 200812 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 412 AM EDT TUE MAY 20 2008 ...AREAS OF FROST EARLY THIS MORNING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN TIER AND WESTERN FINGER LAKES... .CLEAR SKIES AND LIGHT WINDS COMBINED WITH AN UNSEASONABLY COLD AIRMASS WILL CONTINUE TO LEAD TO AREAS OF FROST THROUGH EARLY THIS MORNING. THE MOST WIDESPREAD FROST IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE MORE SHELTERED SOUTHERN TIER VALLEYS WHERE WINDS HAVE BECOME CALM. TEMPERATURES WILL QUICKLY RISE ABOVE FREEZING AFTER 7 AM. NYZ012>014-019>021-085-201100- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-080520T1100Z/ WYOMING-LIVINGSTON-ONTARIO-CHAUTAUQUA-CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY- SOUTHERN ERIE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WARSAW...GENESEO...CANANDAIGUA... JAMESTOWN...OLEAN...WELLSVILLE...ORCHARD PARK...SPRINGVILLE 412 AM EDT TUE MAY 20 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EDT THIS MORNING... A FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EDT THIS MORNING. TEMPERATURES HAVE DROPPED INTO THE LOW TO MID 30S ACROSS MUCH OF THE SOUTHERN TIER AND PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN FINGER LAKES. A FEW OF THE MORE SHELTERED VALLEYS OF THE SOUTHERN TIER HAVE DROPPED TO A FEW DEGREES BELOW FREEZING. AREAS OF FROST WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP THROUGH DAYBREAK. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE QUICKLY ABOVE FREEZING AFTER 7 AM ENDING THE RISK OF FROST. 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. $$ HITCHCOCK
000 WWUS71 KBUF 201105 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 705 AM EDT TUE MAY 20 2008 NYZ012>014-019>021-085-201215- /O.EXP.KBUF.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-080520T1100Z/ WYOMING-LIVINGSTON-ONTARIO-CHAUTAUQUA-CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY- SOUTHERN ERIE- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...WARSAW...GENESEO...CANANDAIGUA... JAMESTOWN...OLEAN...WELLSVILLE...ORCHARD PARK...SPRINGVILLE 705 AM EDT TUE MAY 20 2008 ...FROST ADVISORY HAS EXPIRED... THE FROST ADVISORY IS NO LONGER IN EFFECT. TEMPERATURES WILL RISE ABOVE FREEZING OVER THE NEXT HOUR...ENDING THE RISK OF FROST. $$ HITCHCOCK
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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.