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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 7, 2011Livingston County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2011, 12:50 PM EDT for Livingston County, New York. It was in force for 55 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, 12:50 PM EDT (16:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 7, 2011, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

County Livingston County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:53 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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 99 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-08-07Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 309 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2011-08-07The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
309 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-33 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
826 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

515 
WWUS81 KBUF 071650
SPSBUF

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1250 PM EDT SUN AUG 7 2011

NYZ012>014-071745-
LIVINGSTON NY-ONTARIO NY-WYOMING NY-
1250 PM EDT SUN AUG 7 2011

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA...

* AT 1248 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY 
WINDS 30 TO 35 MPH...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 
NEAR MOUNT MORRIS...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM MAY INCLUDE...
  GENESEO...

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.

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 4259 7794 4274 7799 4293 7741 4273 7733
      4271 7735 4267 7735 4266 7736 4259 7735
      4259 7736

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 7, 7:52 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFChautauqua53 min
Aug 7, 12:21 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF54 min
Aug 7, 12:23 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFLivingston52 min
Aug 7, 12:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFNiagara52 min
Aug 7, 1:41 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFWayne49 min
Aug 7, 1:50 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBUFErie, Niagara109 min
Aug 7, 2:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWayne41 min
Aug 7, 2:44 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBUFMonroe, Wayne104 min
Aug 7, 3:13 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFWayne32 min
Aug 7, 3:35 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFWayne25 min
Aug 7, 3:37 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBUF12 hr
Aug 7, 4:16 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBUFCayuga, Wayne76 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.