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 18, 2011, 4:12 PM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 63 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 18, 2011, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 18, 2011, 5:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Oswego County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:11 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 185 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
- 20 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -63 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1362 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
420
WWUS81 KBUF 182012
SPSBUF
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
412 PM EDT THU AUG 18 2011
NYZ004>006-182115-
CAYUGA NY-OSWEGO NY-WAYNE NY-
412 PM EDT THU AUG 18 2011
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE FAIR HAVEN AND OSWEGO AREAS...
* AT 407 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...AND VERY
HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF OSWEGO...
AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM MAY INCLUDE...
FAIR HAVEN...
HANNIBAL...
OSWEGO...
FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE
INDOORS IMMEDIATELY!
LAT...LON 4328 7672 4335 7673 4336 7669 4343 7663
4346 7656 4348 7649 4353 7642 4354 7637
4352 7635 4352 7629 4335 7626
$$
HITCHCOCKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 18, 1:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Orleans | 55 min |
| Aug 18, 1:35 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Monroe, Niagara, Orleans | 3 hr |
| Aug 18, 2:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Orleans | 60 min |
| Aug 18, 3:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wayne | 61 min |
| Aug 18, 3:43 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Niagara | 62 min |
| Aug 18, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara, Orleans | 44 min |
| Aug 18, 6:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 59 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.