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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 8, 2012, 5:11 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 49 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 8, 2012, 5:11 PM EDT (21:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 2012, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Cattaraugus County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 77 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.
173 WWUS81 KBUF 082111 SPSBUF SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 511 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2012 NYZ020-021-082200- ALLEGANY NY-CATTARAUGUS NY- 511 PM EDT WED AUG 8 2012 ...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 505 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...STRETCHING FROM CATTARAUGUS TO SALAMANCA...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH. RAINFALL RATES UP TO AN INCH PER HOUR COULD RESULT IN PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADS. LAT...LON 4239 7837 4206 7816 4205 7877 4237 7899 $$ TJP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 2:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Niagara | 54 min |
| 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.