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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 22, 2014Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at May 22, 2014, 6:21 AM EDT for Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 54 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
May 22, 2014, 6:21 AM EDT (10:21 UTC)
Expired
May 22, 2014, 7:15 AM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

County Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 155 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 00:00Z on 2014-05-22Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 210 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2014-05-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 30 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

013 
WWUS81 KBUF 221021
SPSBUF

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
621 AM EDT THU MAY 22 2014

NYZ004>006-014-221115-
CAYUGA NY-ONTARIO NY-OSWEGO NY-WAYNE NY-
621 AM EDT THU MAY 22 2014

...LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS WAYNE COUNTY...

* AT 616 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...AND
  VERY HEAVY RAIN.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM WILLIAMSON TO LYONS TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF GENEVA...AND MOVING
  EAST AT 25 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY INCLUDE...
  SODUS...
  CLYDE...
  SODUS POINT...
  NORTH ROSE...
  SAVANNAH...
  WOLCOTT...
  PORT BAY AND CONQUEST...
  RED CREEK...

FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE
INDOORS IMMEDIATELY!

LAT...LON 4276 7705 4276 7697 4300 7695 4302 7650
      4310 7649 4311 7647 4322 7647 4323 7641
      4341 7662 4340 7666 4335 7670 4328 7695
      4330 7721 4327 7736 4307 7713

$$

SMITH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 22, 6:49 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF56 min
May 22, 6:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga, Wayne56 min
May 22, 11:23 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF67 min
May 22, 1:06 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFLewis84 min
May 22, 1:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLewis32 min
May 22, 2:17 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFLewis6 hr
May 22, 2:47 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFLewis58 min
May 22, 4:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFLewis54 min
May 22, 5:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFLewis67 min
May 22, 7:55 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBUFJefferson3 hr

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.