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Winter Storm Watch 4, NWS Buffalo, NY

October 15, 2009Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this winter storm watch at Oct 15, 2009, 4:16 AM EDT for Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York. It took effect at Oct 15, 2009, 6:00 PM EDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 15, 2009, 4:16 AM EDT (08:16 UTC)
In effect from
Oct 15, 2009, 6:00 PM EDT
Expired
Oct 15, 2009, 11:46 AM EDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 73 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2009-10-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2009-10-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 62 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
876 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
62 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 15, 4:31 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBUF53 hr
Oct 15, 11:46 AM EDTWinter Weather AdvisoryBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua44 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.