Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2011
Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jun 11, 2011, 10:21 AM EDT for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 54 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
- Jun 11, 2011, 10:21 AM EDT (14:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 11, 2011, 11:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -88 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 646 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
453 WWUS81 KBUF 111421 SPSBUF SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1021 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011 NYZ012-020-085-111515- CATTARAUGUS NY-ERIE NY-WYOMING NY- 1021 AM EDT SAT JUN 11 2011 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 1018 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR COLLINS...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM MAY INCLUDE... SPRINGVILLE AND BOSTON... EAST CONCORD AND COLDEN... HOLLAND AND SARDINIA... CHAFFEE AND ARCADE... JAVA CENTER... EAGLE... FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. LAT...LON 4281 7822 4256 7811 4241 7893 4258 7901 $$ AR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 11, 11:04 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wyoming | 56 min |
| Jun 11, 12:10 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Livingston | 50 min |
| Jun 11, 12:40 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Livingston | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Allegany | 64 min |
| Jun 11, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario, Wayne | 51 min |
| Jun 11, 7:25 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Lewis | 65 min |
| Jun 11, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 35 min | |
| Jun 11, 7:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 47 min |
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.