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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 28, 2013Genesee County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jun 28, 2013, 7:47 PM EDT for Genesee County, New York. It was in force for 73 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: Jun 28, 2013, 7:47 PM EDT (23:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2013, 9:00 PM EDT
In force: 73 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Genesee County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:49 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, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 44 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 255 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -14 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 14 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: -0.1

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Buffalo, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 28, 3:43 PM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 28, 3:43 PM EDT, 4 hours 4 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 28, 7:10 PM EDT, 37 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 2:36 PM EDT, 5 hours 11 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
236 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013

NYZ003-013-014-282000-
MONROE-LIVINGSTON-ONTARIO-
INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ROCHESTER...GENESEO...CANANDAIGUA
236 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013

...SLOW MOVING MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS WITH A FEW EMBEDDED
THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO DEVELOP AND IMPACT SOUTHERN MONROE,
NORTHERN LIVINGSTON AND WESTERN ONTARIO COUNTIES THROUGH MID
AFTERNOON...

WIDESPREAD MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS WILL CONTINUE TO FIRE ON A
NEARLY STATIONARY BOUNDARY STRETCHING ACROSS THE REGION THIS
AFTERNOON. RAINFALL RATES COULD EXCEED AN INCH OR MORE PER HOUR AT
TIMES. THIS COULD LEAD TO FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING
AREAS...AS WELL AS PONDING OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS. IF
TRAVELING IN THIS REGION...USE CAUTION AND BE PREPARED FOR
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. IF YOU ENCOUNTER ANY FLOODING
TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS ANY
FLOODED ROADWAYS.

A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING ACROSS
THE ENTIRE AREA.

JAM

Special weather statement, Jun 28, 3:01 PM EDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
301 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013

NYZ010-282015-
NORTHERN ERIE-
INCLUDING THE CITY OF...BUFFALO
301 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2013

...A LINE OF INTENSIFYING MODERATE TO HEAVY SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE THROUGH NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY THIS
AFTERNOON...

SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEGUN TO INCREASE IN COVERAGE
ALONG AN EAST TO WEST ORIENTED BOUNDARY STRETCHING ACROSS NORTHERN
ERIE COUNTY...JUST TO THE NORTH OF THE BUFFALO METRO AREA AND THE
BUFFALO AIRPORT. THIS LINE WILL CONTINUE TO SLOWLY MOVE NORTHWARD
ACROSS THE REGION THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. RAINFALL RATES COULD
EXCEED AN INCH OR MORE PER HOUR AT TIMES. THIS COULD LEAD TO
FLOODING OF POOR DRAINAGE AND LOW LYING AREAS...AS WELL AS PONDING
OF WATER ON AREA ROADWAYS. IF TRAVELING IN THIS REGION...USE
CAUTION AND BE PREPARED FOR RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DRIVE ACROSS ANY FLOODED ROADWAYS. IF YOU
ENCOUNTER ANY FLOODING TURN AROUND...DON'T DROWN.

A FLOOD WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS EVENING ACROSS
THE ENTIRE AREA.

JAM

Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:42 PM EDT, 3 hours 5 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jun 28, 4:45 PM EDT, 3 hours 2 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 5:33 PM EDT, 2 hours 14 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jun 28, 7:47 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 8:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BUF	Genesee	3 hr
Jun 27, 10:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Monroe	63 min
Jun 28, 8:28 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	3 hr
Jun 28, 11:16 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	4 hr
Jun 28, 1:57 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BUF	Niagara, Orleans	14 hr
Jun 28, 3:20 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BUF	Livingston, Monroe	4 hr
Jun 28, 3:36 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BUF	Erie	5 hr
Jun 28, 5:33 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Wyoming	57 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2013 Every special weather statement in 2013

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.