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Winter Weather Advisory 8, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 11, 2009, 3:27 PM EST for 12 counties in New York. It took effect at Feb 12, 2009, 6:00 AM EST. It was in force for 18 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 11, 2009, 3:27 PM EST (20:27 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 12, 2009, 6:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Feb 13, 2009, 12:00 AM EST
- In force
- 18 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Niagara County, NY, Orleans County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:28 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 579 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 146 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 183 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 Feb 11, 2:44 PM EST, 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 11, 2:44 PM EST, 43 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 4:31 AM EST | Gale Warning | BUF | 39 hr | |
| Feb 11, 2:34 PM EST | High Wind Warning | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 8 more | 21 hr |
| Feb 11, 2:34 PM EST | Wind Advisory | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis | 21 hr |
| Feb 11, 5:19 PM EST | River Flood Warning | BUF | Erie | 12 hr |
| Feb 11, 5:37 PM EST | River Flood Warning | BUF | Erie, Wyoming | 12 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.