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Winter Weather Advisory 10, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this winter weather advisory at Feb 26, 2013, 1:43 PM EST for 8 counties in New York. It took effect at Feb 26, 2013, 6:00 PM EST. It was in force for 19 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 26, 2013, 1:43 PM EST (18:43 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 26, 2013, 6:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 27, 2013, 12:57 PM EST
- In force
- 19 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.7 hours before the alert went out and 278 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
- 729 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 55 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -18 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
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.