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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2011, 7:52 AM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 53 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
- Aug 7, 2011, 7:52 AM EDT (11:52 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2011, 8:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 122 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:56 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 00:00Z, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 123 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
- 11 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1330 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS81 KBUF 071152
SPSBUF
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
752 AM EDT SUN AUG 7 2011
NYZ019-071245-
CHAUTAUQUA NY-
752 AM EDT SUN AUG 7 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING TOWARD THE AREA...
* AT 747 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
POSSIBLY SOME SMALL HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 19 MILES WEST OF
FINDLEY LAKE...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM MAY INCLUDE...
FINDLEY LAKE...
FRENCH CREEK...
CLYMER AND SHERMAN...
THIS VERY HEAVY RAIN FROM THE STORMS COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING
OF ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS.
LAT...LON 4220 7977 4215 7935 4199 7940 4199 7976
4200 7977 4203 7977
$$
TJPThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 12:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 54 min | |
| Aug 7, 12:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Livingston | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 12:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Livingston | 55 min |
| Aug 7, 12:53 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Niagara | 52 min |
| Aug 7, 1:41 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wayne | 49 min |
| Aug 7, 1:50 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 109 min |
| Aug 7, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 41 min |
| Aug 7, 2:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Monroe, Wayne | 104 min |
| Aug 7, 3:13 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Wayne | 32 min |
| Aug 7, 3:35 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Wayne | 25 min |
| Aug 7, 3:37 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 12 hr | |
| Aug 7, 4:16 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Cayuga, Wayne | 76 min |
Nearby
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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.