Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2011
Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 7, 2011, 1:41 PM EDT for Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 49 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, 1:41 PM EDT (17:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 7, 2011, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Wayne County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:44 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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WWUS81 KBUF 071741
SPSBUF
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
141 PM EDT SUN AUG 7 2011
NYZ003-004-071830-
MONROE NY-WAYNE NY-
141 PM EDT SUN AUG 7 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA...
* AT 136 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40
MPH...AND HEAVY RAIN WITH RAINFALL RATE IN EXCESS OF AN INCH PER
HOUR. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR IRONDEQUOIT...AND MOVING EAST AT
15 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM MAY INCLUDE...
IRONDEQUOIT...
WEBSTER...
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...VERY HEAVY
RAIN...AND COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE
AREAS.
LAT...LON 4314 7765 4327 7766 4328 7762 4325 7757
4324 7753 4325 7751 4329 7737 4330 7709
4329 7706 4308 7705
$$
ARThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 7, 7:52 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Chautauqua | 53 min |
| 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, 1:50 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 |
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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.