Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2011
Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at May 19, 2011, 4:18 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 57 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 19, 2011, 4:18 PM EDT (20:18 UTC)
- Expired
- May 19, 2011, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Ontario County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:19 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 90 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
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 11 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 99 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
465 WWUS81 KBUF 192018 SPSBUF SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 418 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2011 NYZ002>004-011-013-014-192115- GENESEE NY-LIVINGSTON NY-MONROE NY-ONTARIO NY-ORLEANS NY-WAYNE NY- 418 PM EDT THU MAY 19 2011 ...VERY HEAVY RAIN IMPACTING THE AREA... * AT 413 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM CHURCHVILLE TO CANANDAIGUA...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY INCLUDE... BRIGHTON AND FAIRPORT... BECAUSE THESE STORMS ARE MOVING VERY SLOWLY...THEY COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. LAT...LON 4328 7787 4305 7698 4281 7725 4303 7810 $$ TJP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 1:09 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego | 3 hr |
| May 19, 1:17 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Allegany, Livingston, Wyoming | 3 hr |
| May 19, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Chautauqua | 52 min |
| May 19, 4:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Ontario | 52 min |
| May 19, 4:54 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Ontario | 115 min |
| May 19, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Cattaraugus | 55 min |
| May 19, 5:21 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 3 hr |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New York, 2011Every special weather statement in 2011
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.