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Lake Effect Snow Watch 6, NWS Buffalo, NY

December 27, 2009Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lake effect snow watch at Dec 27, 2009, 4:34 AM EST for Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York. It took effect at Dec 28, 2009, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Dec 27, 2009, 4:34 AM EST (09:34 UTC)
In effect from: Dec 28, 2009, 1:00 AM EST
Expired: Dec 27, 2009, 3:23 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:31 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 Dec 27, 3:58 AM EST, 36 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 27, 3:58 AM EST, 36 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 26, 3:51 PM EST, 12 hours 43 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
Dec 27, 3:23 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and 1 more	19 hr
Dec 27, 3:36 PM EST	Gale Warning	BUF		36 hr
Dec 27, 3:36 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BUF		55 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Watches in New York, 2009 Every lake effect snow watch in 2009

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.