Alert archive / New York / Winter Weather Advisories in 2008
Winter Weather Advisory 9, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this winter weather advisory at Mar 27, 2008, 3:13 PM EDT for 15 counties in New York. It took effect at Mar 27, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT. It was in force for 9 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Mar 27, 2008, 3:13 PM EDT (19:13 UTC)
- In effect from
- Mar 27, 2008, 8:00 PM EDT
- Expired
- Mar 28, 2008, 5:27 AM EDT
- In force
- 9 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Niagara County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Orleans County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Wayne County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:16 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 320 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
- 1102 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 98 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 14 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
Nearby
Winter Weather Advisories in New York, 2008Every winter weather 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.