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 8, 2012, 2:21 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 54 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 8, 2012, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2012, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2:44 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 1 W Middleport, NY | SEVERAL LARGE TREES BLOWN DOWN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 31 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
- 1747 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 29 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
220 WWUS81 KBUF 081821 SPSBUF SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 221 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2012 NYZ001-010-081915- ERIE NY-NIAGARA NY- 221 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2012 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 214 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 45 MPH...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SANBORN AND SLOWLY MOVING TO THE EAST AND SOUTHEAST. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM MAY INCLUDE... LOCKPORT... THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! LAT...LON 4332 7847 4307 7846 4309 7904 4325 7904 $$ AR
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2:47 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Orleans | 58 min |
| Aug 8, 3:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Monroe | 56 min |
| Aug 8, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 66 min | |
| Aug 8, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Monroe, Wayne | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 41 min | |
| Aug 8, 4:36 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Ontario | 54 min |
| Aug 8, 5:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Cattaraugus | 49 min |
| Aug 8, 7:00 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 60 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New York, 2012Every special weather statement in 2012
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.