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Frost Advisory 4, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this frost advisory at May 18, 2014, 2:31 PM EDT for Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, Lewis County, New York. It took effect at May 19, 2014, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2014, 2:31 PM EDT (18:31 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 19, 2014, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 19, 2014, 7:33 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Lewis County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:34 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, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 109 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
- 933 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
717 WWUS71 KBUF 181831 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 231 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 2014 NYZ008-020-021-190245- /O.NEW.KBUF.FR.Y.0004.140519T0600Z-140519T1200Z/ LEWIS-CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LOWVILLE...OLEAN...WELLSVILLE 231 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 2014 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT MONDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT MONDAY. * LOCATIONS...CATTARAUGUS...LEWIS...AND ALLEGANY COUNTIES. MAINLY SHELTERED VALLEY LOCATIONS. * TIMING...LATE TONIGHT INTO MONDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...LOWER TO MID 30S. * IMPACTS...AREAS OF FROST COULD DAMAGE TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO, POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$ APFFEL
3 follow-up statements
889 WWUS71 KBUF 190007 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 807 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 2014 NYZ008-020-021-190815- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0004.140519T0600Z-140519T1200Z/ LEWIS-CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LOWVILLE...OLEAN...WELLSVILLE 807 PM EDT SUN MAY 18 2014 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT MONDAY... * LOCATIONS...CATTARAUGUS...LEWIS...AND ALLEGANY COUNTIES. MAINLY SHELTERED VALLEY LOCATIONS. * TIMING...OVERNIGHT TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY MONDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. * IMPACTS...AREAS OF FROST COULD DAMAGE TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$ SMITH
835 WWUS71 KBUF 190741 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 341 AM EDT MON MAY 19 2014 NYZ008-020-021-191200- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-140519T1200Z/ LEWIS-CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LOWVILLE...OLEAN...WELLSVILLE 341 AM EDT MON MAY 19 2014 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * LOCATIONS...CATTARAUGUS...LEWIS...AND ALLEGANY COUNTIES. MAINLY SHELTERED VALLEY LOCATIONS. * TIMING...THROUGH EARLY THIS MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. * IMPACTS...AREAS OF FROST COULD DAMAGE TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$
902 WWUS71 KBUF 191133 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 733 AM EDT MON MAY 19 2014 NYZ008-020-021-191245- /O.CAN.KBUF.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-140519T1200Z/ LEWIS-CATTARAUGUS-ALLEGANY- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...LOWVILLE...OLEAN...WELLSVILLE 733 AM EDT MON MAY 19 2014 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE TO WARM THROUGH THE MORNING HOURS. $$
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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.