Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2012, 7:04 PM EDT for Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 56 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
- Aug 5, 2012, 7:04 PM EDT (23:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2012, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Monroe County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 66 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:07 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
881 WWUS81 KBUF 052304 SPSBUF SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 704 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 NYZ001>003-010-011-060000- ERIE NY-GENESEE NY-MONROE NY-NIAGARA NY-ORLEANS NY- 704 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 ...THUNDERSTORMS CROSSING THE LOWER GENESEE VALLEY... * AT 700 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ALBION TO 8 MILES WEST OF OAKFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. SOUTHEASTERN ORLEANS COUNTY...NORTHERN GENESEE COUNTY AND PORTIONS OF WESTERN MONROE COUNTY COULD PICK UP AS MUCH AS A HALF INCH OF RAIN WITH THIS LINE OF CONVECTION. LAT...LON 4335 7810 4324 7754 4300 7771 4304 7857 $$ RSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 11:53 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 2 hr | |
| Aug 5, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 1:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 39 min |
| Aug 5, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 49 min |
| Aug 5, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee | 28 min |
| Aug 5, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Livingston, Wyoming | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 56 min | |
| Aug 5, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 21 min |
| Aug 5, 2:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 96 min | |
| Aug 5, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe, Ontario | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego | 64 min |
| Aug 5, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego | 63 min |
| Aug 5, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 3:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 111 min |
| Aug 5, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis | 49 min |
| Aug 5, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 4:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Jefferson | 77 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.