Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2012
Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Oct 18, 2012, 3:40 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 50 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
- Oct 18, 2012, 3:40 PM EDT (19:40 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 18, 2012, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:41 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 3:40 PM EDT | MARINE TSTM WIND 46 | Dunkirk, NY |
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, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 1898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 48 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
839
WWUS81 KBUF 181940
SPSBUF
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
340 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2012
NYZ019-182030-
CHAUTAUQUA NY-
340 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2012
...LINE OF GUSTY SHOWERS MOVING INTO CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY...
* AT 335 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A LINE OF SHOWERS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH.
THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM WESTFIELD TO
7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF CLYMER...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY INCLUDE...
DUNKIRK AND JAMESTOWN...
FORESTVILLE...
CASSADAGA...
STOCKTON...
FREWSBURG...
THESE SHOWERS CONTAIN LITTLE OR NO LIGHTNING. DO NOT WAIT FOR THE
SOUND OF THUNDER TO SEEK SHELTER.
LAT...LON 4200 7968 4229 7974 4242 7946 4250 7935
4257 7914 4254 7907 4199 7906
$$
HITCHCOCKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 18, 3:13 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 62 min | |
| Oct 18, 4:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Cattaraugus | 51 min |
| Oct 18, 4:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, Wyoming | 62 min |
| Oct 18, 4:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 44 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.