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, 5:09 AM EDT for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 36 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, 5:09 AM EDT (09:09 UTC)
- Expired
- May 29, 2012, 5:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 49 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
- 1063 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 129 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
375 WWUS81 KBUF 290909 AAA SPSBUF SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 509 AM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012 NYZ003-011>013-085-290945- ERIE NY-GENESEE NY-LIVINGSTON NY-MONROE NY-WYOMING NY- 509 AM EDT TUE MAY 29 2012 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 507 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WARSAW... AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM MAY INCLUDE... VARYSBURG... WYOMING... WARSAW... PAVILION... GENESEO... THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. LAT...LON 4300 7787 4278 7776 4257 7851 4273 7858 $$ WOOD
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 29, 3:51 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Lewis | 54 min |
| 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, 5:17 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.