Alert archive / New York / Lake Effect Snow Advisories in 2008
Lake Effect Snow Advisory 1, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lake effect snow advisory at Jan 15, 2008, 4:16 AM EST for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 15, 2008, 4:16 AM EST (09:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2008, 9:27 AM EST
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:17 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 258 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
- 711 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 75 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake effect snow 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 lake effect snow advisory went out at Jan 15, 3:00 AM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 15, 3:00 AM EST, 1 hour 16 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 9:27 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Wyoming | 5 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.