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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 29, 2012Wyoming County, New York

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2012-05-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1063 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2012-05-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 67 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 3:51 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFLewis54 min
May 29, 4:24 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFWyoming66 min
May 29, 4:33 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF27 min
May 29, 4:41 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFJefferson34 min
May 29, 5:17 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFLewis28 min
May 29, 6:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLewis22 min
May 29, 11:01 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFChautauqua44 min
May 29, 11:24 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua66 min
May 29, 11:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie, Wyoming51 min
May 29, 12:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOswego64 min
May 29, 12:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLivingston, Ontario62 min
May 29, 12:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee, Livingston, Wyoming41 min
May 29, 12:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga, Oswego, Wayne44 min
May 29, 12:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOntario58 min
May 29, 12:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLivingston, Monroe, Ontario41 min
May 29, 12:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF36 min
May 29, 1:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWayne58 min
May 29, 1:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLewis, Oswego55 min
May 29, 1:24 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBUFOswego3 hr
May 29, 1:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus, Livingston63 min
May 29, 1:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLewis, Oswego38 min
May 29, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOswego43 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.