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Lake Effect Snow Watch 1, NWS Buffalo, NY

January 18, 20087 counties in New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lake effect snow watch at Jan 18, 2008, 3:57 PM EST for 7 counties in New York. It took effect at Jan 19, 2008, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 18, 2008, 3:57 PM EST (20:57 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 19, 2008, 4:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 19, 2008, 3:36 AM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY, Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:58 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this lake effect snow watch 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 watch went out at Jan 18, 3:13 PM EST, 44 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 18, 3:13 PM EST, 44 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 18, 5:04 AM EST, 10 hours 53 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
Jan 18, 2:30 AM EST	Wind Advisory	BUF	Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans	13 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Watches in New York, 2008 Every lake effect snow watch 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.