Alert archive / New York / Frost Advisories in 2012
Frost Advisory 5, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this frost advisory at May 17, 2012, 3:22 PM EDT for Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, New York. It took effect at May 18, 2012, 3:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 2012, 3:22 PM EDT (19:22 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 18, 2012, 3:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 18, 2012, 9:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 83 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 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, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 80 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1398 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -58 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -5 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
022 WWUS71 KBUF 171922 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 322 PM EDT THU MAY 17 2012 NYZ020-021-180330- /O.NEW.KBUF.FR.Y.0005.120518T0700Z-120518T1300Z/ CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...OLEAN...WELLSVILLE 322 PM EDT THU MAY 17 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM EDT FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM EDT FRIDAY. * LOCATIONS...CATTARAUGUS AND ALLEGANY COUNTIES. * TIMING...LATE THURSDAY NIGHT THROUGH LATE FRIDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE UPPER 30S. * IMPACTS...DAMAGE TO SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS...UNPROTECTED CROPS AND TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO, POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$
2 follow-up statements
735 WWUS71 KBUF 180345 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1145 PM EDT THU MAY 17 2012 NYZ020-021-181145- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0005.120518T0700Z-120518T1300Z/ CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...OLEAN...WELLSVILLE 1145 PM EDT THU MAY 17 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 9 AM EDT FRIDAY... * LOCATIONS...SHELTERED VALLEYS IN CATTARAUGUS AND ALLEGANY COUNTIES. * TIMING...LATE TONIGHT THROUGH MID FRIDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. * IMPACTS...DAMAGE TO SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS...UNPROTECTED CROPS AND TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$
206 WWUS71 KBUF 180811 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 411 AM EDT FRI MAY 18 2012 NYZ020-021-181300- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0005.000000T0000Z-120518T1300Z/ CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...OLEAN...WELLSVILLE 411 AM EDT FRI MAY 18 2012 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * LOCATIONS...SHELTERED VALLEYS IN CATTARAUGUS AND ALLEGANY COUNTIES. * TIMING...EARLY THIS MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...LOWS IN THE MID 30S. * IMPACTS...DAMAGE TO SENSITIVE OUTDOOR PLANTS...UNPROTECTED CROPS AND TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$
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.