Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at May 29, 2012, 3:51 AM EDT for Lewis County, New York. It was in force for 54 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
- May 29, 2012, 3:51 AM EDT (07:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2012, 4:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Lewis County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:54 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 193 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
- 1830 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -58 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1386 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 135 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 300 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.2
- Supercell composite
- 6.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
885
WWUS81 KBUF 290751
SPSBUF
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
351 AM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012
NYZ007-008-290845-
JEFFERSON NY-LEWIS NY-
351 AM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA...
* AT 349 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...AND STRONG
GUSTY WINDS. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LOWVILLE...AND MOVING
EAST AT 35 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM MAY INCLUDE...
NATURAL BRIDGE...
CROGHAN...
INDIAN RIVER...
HARRISVILLE...
THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.
LAT...LON 4364 7577 4369 7577 4370 7596 4401 7601
4423 7547 4410 7516 4364 7511
$$
THOMASThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 4:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wyoming | 66 min |
| May 29, 4:33 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 27 min | |
| May 29, 4:41 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Jefferson | 34 min |
| May 29, 5:09 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wyoming | 36 min |
| May 29, 5:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Lewis | 28 min |
| May 29, 6:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 22 min |
| May 29, 11:01 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Chautauqua | 44 min |
| May 29, 11:24 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 66 min |
| May 29, 11:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Wyoming | 51 min |
| May 29, 12:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 64 min |
| May 29, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 62 min |
| May 29, 12:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Livingston, Wyoming | 41 min |
| May 29, 12:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego, Wayne | 44 min |
| May 29, 12:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario | 58 min |
| May 29, 12:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Monroe, Ontario | 41 min |
| May 29, 12:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 36 min | |
| May 29, 1:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 58 min |
| May 29, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis, Oswego | 55 min |
| May 29, 1:24 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Oswego | 3 hr |
| May 29, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Livingston | 63 min |
| May 29, 1:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis, Oswego | 38 min |
| May 29, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 43 min |
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.