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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

October 18, 2012Cattaraugus County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Oct 18, 2012, 4:24 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 51 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
Oct 18, 2012, 4:24 PM EDT (20:24 UTC)
Expired
Oct 18, 2012, 5:15 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

County Cattaraugus County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:24 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 83 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 12:00Z on 2012-10-18Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2012-10-18The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 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
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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

905 
WWUS81 KBUF 182024
SPSBUF

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
424 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2012

NYZ019-020-085-182115-
CATTARAUGUS NY-CHAUTAUQUA NY-ERIE NY-
424 PM EDT THU OCT 18 2012

...LINE OF SHOWERS WITH GUSTY WINDS TO IMPACT CATTARAUGUS AND 
SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTIES...

*   AT 419 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
    A LINE OF SHOWERS EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES WEST OF GOWANDA TO 
    FREWSBURG...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH  
    ARE POSSIBLE AS THIS LINE OF SHOWERS CROSSES THE AREA. 

*   SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY 
INCLUDE...SALAMANCA...

LAT...LON 4199 7931 4250 7928 4257 7847 4199 7852

$$
TJP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 18, 3:13 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF62 min
Oct 18, 3:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFChautauqua50 min
Oct 18, 4:28 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFGenesee, Niagara, Orleans, Wyoming62 min
Oct 18, 4:46 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF44 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.