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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Sep 4, 2011, 4:53 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 67 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
- Sep 4, 2011, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 4, 2011, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Allegany County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 97 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
- 220 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -162 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 963 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 162 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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</html>What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Buffalo, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Sep 4, 4:01 PM EDT, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 4:01 PM EDT, 52 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 255 PM EDT SUN SEP 4 2011 NYZ005-006-008-051900- NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-LEWIS- 255 PM EDT SUN SEP 4 2011 ...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 835 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING... THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. PLEASE LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR GO TO WEATHER.GOV ON THE INTERNET FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FOLLOWING HAZARDS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH. THERE IS ALSO A POTENTIAL FOR HEAVY RAINS WHICH MAY RESULT IN LOCALIZED FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BUFFALO CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BUF NYZ001>004-007-010>014-019>021-085-051900- NIAGARA-ORLEANS-MONROE-WAYNE-JEFFERSON-NORTHERN ERIE-GENESEE-WYOMING- LIVINGSTON-ONTARIO-CHAUTAUQUA-CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY-SOUTHERN ERIE- 255 PM EDT SUN SEP 4 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF STRONG TO POTENTIALLY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON. A PERIOD OF LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN IS ALSO POSSIBLE THROUGH TONIGHT...WITH LOCALIZED MINOR FLOODING POSSIBLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BUFFALO CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BUF LEZ020-040-041-LOZ030-042>045-062>065-SLZ022-024-051900- UPPER NIAGARA RIVER AND BUFFALO HARBOR- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM RIPLEY TO DUNKIRK- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM DUNKIRK TO BUFFALO- LOWER NIAGARA RIVER- LAKE ONTARIO NEARSHORE WATERS FROM THE NIAGARA RIVER TO HAMLIN BEACH- LAKE ONTARIO NEARSHORE WATERS FROM HAMLIN BEACH TO SODUS BAY- LAKE ONTARIO NEARSHORE WATERS FROM SODUS BAY TO MEXICO BAY- LAKE ONTARIO NEARSHORE WATERS FROM MEXICO BAY TO THE SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER- LAKE ONTARIO OPEN WATERS FROM THE NIAGARA RIVER TO HAMLIN BEACH- LAKE ONTARIO OPEN WATERS FROM HAMLIN BEACH TO SODUS BAY- LAKE ONTARIO OPEN WATERS FROM SODUS BAY TO MEXICO BAY- LAKE ONTARIO OPEN WATERS FROM MEXICO BAY TO THE SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER- SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER FROM CAPE VINCENT TO OGDENSBURG- SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER FROM OGDENSBURG TO SAINT REGIS- 255 PM EDT SUN SEP 4 2011 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEW YORK WATERS OF LAKE ERIE...LAKE ONTARIO...AND THE SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER. .DAY ONE...THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BUFFALO CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BUF JJR/APFFEL
In the hours before
Local storm report, Sep 4, 1:20 PM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
120 PM EDT SUN SEP 04 2011
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0450 AM TSTM WND DMG 1 SE THIRTY MILE POINT 43.36N 78.48W
09/04/2011 NIAGARA NY PARK SERVICE
AWNING TORN OFF OF RV AND SEVERAL COLLAPSED TENTS
REPORTED AT GOLDEN HILL STATE PARK.
&&
EVENT NUMBER BUF1100259
JAMSpecial weather statement, Sep 4, 4:53 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 8:59 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Allegany | 46 min |
| Sep 3, 9:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 41 min |
| Sep 4, 3:00 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 90 min | |
| Sep 4, 3:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 54 min |
| Sep 4, 3:39 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 81 min | |
| Sep 4, 3:49 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 56 min | |
| Sep 4, 3:55 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie | 65 min |
| Sep 4, 4:09 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 57 min |
| Sep 4, 4:11 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 61 min | |
| Sep 4, 4:41 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans | 45 min |
| Sep 4, 4:46 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 70 min | |
| Sep 4, 5:20 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Chautauqua | 40 min |
| Sep 4, 6:40 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 80 min | |
| Sep 4, 7:31 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Jefferson | 44 min |
| Sep 4, 7:57 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 63 min | |
| Sep 4, 3:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 64 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.