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Wind Chill Advisory 2, NWS Buffalo, NY

January 23, 2013Jefferson County, Lewis County, Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this wind chill advisory at Jan 23, 2013, 3:46 PM EST for Jefferson County, Lewis County, Oswego County, New York. It took effect at Jan 24, 2013, 12:00 AM EST. It was in force for 12 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 23, 2013, 3:46 PM EST (20:46 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 24, 2013, 12:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 24, 2013, 11:52 AM EST
In force: 12 hr
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Oswego County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 205 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 884 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 63 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this wind chill advisory 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 wind chill advisory went out at Jan 22, 6:52 PM EST, 20 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 22, 6:52 PM EST, 20 hours 54 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 22, 3:48 PM EST, 23 hours 58 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
Jan 23, 7:08 AM EST	Lake Effect Snow Advisory	BUF	Monroe, Wayne	5 hr
Jan 23, 3:34 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BUF		36 hr

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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.