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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 6, NWS Buffalo, NY

January 28, 2014Jefferson County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lake effect snow advisory at Jan 28, 2014, 11:26 PM EST for Jefferson County, New York. It took effect at Jan 29, 2014, 4:00 AM EST. It was in force for 13 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 28, 2014, 11:26 PM EST (04:26 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 29, 2014, 4:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 29, 2014, 5:22 PM EST
In force: 13 hr
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Jefferson County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:26 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 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 231 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: 1737 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 104 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 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 lake effect snow 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 lake effect snow advisory went out at Jan 28, 10:14 PM EST, 1 hour 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 28, 10:14 PM EST, 1 hour 12 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 28, 9:38 PM EST	Lake Effect Snow Advisory	BUF	Jefferson	108 min
Jan 29, 9:39 AM EST	Wind Chill Advisory	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara and 2 more	5 hr
Jan 29, 5:22 PM EST	Lake Effect Snow Warning	BUF	Jefferson	13 hr
Jan 29, 5:22 PM EST	Lake Effect Snow Advisory	BUF	Lewis	10 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Advisories in New York, 2014 Every 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.