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Winter Weather Advisory 5, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this winter weather advisory at Jan 14, 2009, 3:32 PM EST for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Jan 14, 2009, 4:00 PM EST. It was in force for 14 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 14, 2009, 3:32 PM EST (20:32 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 14, 2009, 4:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Jan 15, 2009, 6:02 AM EST
- In force
- 14 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Monroe County, NY, Niagara County, NY, Orleans County, NY, Wayne County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 74 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 358 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
- 696 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Jan 14, 3:30 PM EST, 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 3:30 PM EST, 2 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 13, 10:12 PM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 12 hr | |
| Jan 14, 4:21 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Watch | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego | 42 hr |
| Jan 14, 3:32 PM EST | Lake Effect Snow Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and 1 more | 71 hr |
| Jan 14, 3:32 PM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego | 15 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.