Alert archive / New York / Frost Advisories in 2011
Frost Advisory 4, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this frost advisory at Sep 17, 2011, 3:16 PM EDT for Lewis County, New York. It took effect at Sep 18, 2011, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 17, 2011, 3:16 PM EDT (19:16 UTC)
- In effect from
- Sep 18, 2011, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Sep 18, 2011, 7:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Lewis County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:19 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.3 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1068 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -23 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 30 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
655 WWUS71 KBUF 171916 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 316 PM EDT SAT SEP 17 2011 NYZ008-180330- /O.NEW.KBUF.FR.Y.0004.110918T0600Z-110918T1100Z/ LEWIS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...LOWVILLE 316 PM EDT SAT SEP 17 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 7 AM EDT SUNDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 7 AM EDT SUNDAY. * LOCATIONS...TUG HILL PLATEAU IN LEWIS COUNTY * TIMING...EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. * IMPACTS...AREAS OF FROST CAUSING CONCERN FOR AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO, POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$ ZAFF
2 follow-up statements
246 WWUS71 KBUF 180202 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1002 PM EDT SAT SEP 17 2011 NYZ008-181015- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0004.110918T0600Z-110918T1100Z/ LEWIS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...LOWVILLE 1002 PM EDT SAT SEP 17 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 7 AM EDT SUNDAY... * LOCATIONS...TUG HILL PLATEAU IN LEWIS COUNTY * TIMING...EARLY SUNDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID TO UPPER 30S. * IMPACTS...AREAS OF FROST CAUSING CONCERN FOR AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$
556 WWUS71 KBUF 180734 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 334 AM EDT SUN SEP 18 2011 NYZ008-181100- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-110918T1100Z/ LEWIS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...LOWVILLE 334 AM EDT SUN SEP 18 2011 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * LOCATIONS...TUG HILL PLATEAU IN LEWIS COUNTY * TIMING...EARLY THIS MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID TO UPPER 30S. * IMPACTS...AREAS OF FROST CAUSING CONCERN FOR AGRICULTURAL INTERESTS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$
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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.