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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 15, NWS Buffalo, NY

March 2, 2014Cayuga County, Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lake effect snow advisory at Mar 2, 2014, 5:58 PM EST for Cayuga County, Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 10 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 2, 2014, 5:58 PM EST (22:58 UTC)
Expired
Mar 3, 2014, 3:38 AM EST
In force
10 hr
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:01 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 157 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 2014-03-02Temperature 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 2014-03-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 54 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
709 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
88 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
54 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
174 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 2, 3:49 AM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryBUF30 hr
Mar 2, 3:05 PM ESTWind Chill AdvisoryBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Jefferson, Lewis and 3 more19 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Advisories in New York, 2014Every lake effect snow advisory in 2014

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.