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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 13, 2014, 1:42 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, Erie County, Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 63 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
- Jul 13, 2014, 1:42 PM EDT (17:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 13, 2014, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 45 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1047 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 217 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 218 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
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The local office's own words before this special weather statement 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 special weather statement went out at Jul 13, 12:46 PM EDT, 56 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 12:46 PM EDT, 56 minutes before
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HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 508 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2014 NYZ001-002-010>012-019-020-085-140915- NIAGARA-ORLEANS-NORTHERN ERIE-GENESEE-WYOMING-CHAUTAUQUA-CATTARAUGUS- SOUTHERN ERIE- 508 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REGION TODAY WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...WITH AMOUNTS OF UP TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE. RAINFALL OF THIS MAGNITUDE WOULD LIKELY LEAD TO LOCALIZED POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING AND FAST...SIGNIFICANT RISES TO SMALLER TRIBUTARIES. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BUFFALO CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BUF NYZ003>008-013-014-021-140915- MONROE-WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-JEFFERSON-LEWIS-LIVINGSTON- ONTARIO-ALLEGANY- 508 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE REGION TODAY WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN...WITH AMOUNTS OF UP TO 2 INCHES POSSIBLE. RAINFALL OF THIS MAGNITUDE WOULD LIKELY LEAD TO LOCALIZED POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING AND FAST...SIGNIFICANT RISES TO SMALLER TRIBUTARIES. THERE WILL ALSO BE THE RISK THAT ANY THUNDERSTORM LATER THIS AFTERNOON COULD PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BUFFALO CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BUF LEZ020-040-041-LOZ030-042>045-062>065-SLZ022-024-140915- UPPER NIAGARA RIVER AND BUFFALO HARBOR- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM RIPLEY TO DUNKIRK- LAKE ERIE NEARSHORE WATERS FROM DUNKIRK TO BUFFALO- LOWER NIAGARA RIVER- LAKE ONTARIO NEARSHORE WATERS FROM THE NIAGARA RIVER TO HAMLIN BEACH- LAKE ONTARIO NEARSHORE WATERS FROM HAMLIN BEACH TO SODUS BAY- LAKE ONTARIO NEARSHORE WATERS FROM SODUS BAY TO MEXICO BAY- LAKE ONTARIO NEARSHORE WATERS FROM MEXICO BAY TO THE SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER- LAKE ONTARIO OPEN WATERS FROM THE NIAGARA RIVER TO HAMLIN BEACH- LAKE ONTARIO OPEN WATERS FROM HAMLIN BEACH TO SODUS BAY- LAKE ONTARIO OPEN WATERS FROM SODUS BAY TO MEXICO BAY- LAKE ONTARIO OPEN WATERS FROM MEXICO BAY TO THE SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER- SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER FROM CAPE VINCENT TO OGDENSBURG- SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER FROM OGDENSBURG TO SAINT REGIS- 508 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR THE NEW YORK WATERS OF LAKE ERIE...LAKE ONTARIO...AND THE SAINT LAWRENCE RIVER. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY. THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. THIS PRODUCT...ALONG WITH OTHER WATCHES...WARNINGS...ADVISORIES... AND STATEMENTS ISSUED BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN BUFFALO CAN BE FOUND ON THE INTERNET AT HTTP://WWW.WEATHER.GOV/BUF RSH
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 7:59 AM EDT, 5 hours 43 minutes before
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SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1016 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2014
NYZ001-010>012-085-131515-
ERIE NY-GENESEE NY-NIAGARA NY-WYOMING NY-
1016 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2014
...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA...
* AT 1014 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BUFFALO...AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM MAY INCLUDE...
CHEEKTOWAGA AND WEST SENECA...
DEPEW AND LANCASTER...
LAT...LON 4276 7890 4279 7886 4294 7892 4295 7897
4299 7903 4304 7902 4319 7849 4317 7846
4313 7846 4313 7840 4300 7818 4270 7838
4265 7902 4271 7903
THOMASSpecial weather statement, Jul 13, 11:05 AM EDT, 2 hours 37 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1105 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2014 NYZ012-019-020-085-131545- CATTARAUGUS NY-CHAUTAUQUA NY-ERIE NY-WYOMING NY- 1105 AM EDT SUN JUL 13 2014 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 1100 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING STRONG GUSTY WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...AND HEAVY RAIN. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOWANDA...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM MAY INCLUDE... SOUTH DAYTON... PERRYSBURG... GOWANDA... COLLINS AND CATTARAUGUS... OTTO... ASHFORD HOLLOW... SPRINGVILLE AND ASHFORD... THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. LAT...LON 4267 7844 4233 7835 4228 7926 4244 7932 REYNOLDS
Special weather statement, Jul 13, 1:42 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 142 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2014 NYZ010-012-013-019>021-085-131845- ALLEGANY NY-CATTARAUGUS NY-CHAUTAUQUA NY-ERIE NY-LIVINGSTON NY-WYOMING NY- 142 PM EDT SUN JUL 13 2014 ...A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO THE AREA... * AT 137 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GUSTY WINDS...AND HEAVY RAIN. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM ELMA CENTER TO 24 MILES WEST OF GOWANDA...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MAY INCLUDE... EAST AURORA... GENESEO... SPRINGVILLE... GOWANDA... HOLLAND... BOSTON... THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS. OCCASIONAL CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY! THESE STORMS HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND COULD CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING OF ROADS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. LAT...LON 4286 7771 4229 7852 4228 7957 4287 7863 REYNOLDS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 13, 7:17 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Chautauqua | 28 min |
| Jul 13, 10:16 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie, Genesee | 59 min |
| Jul 13, 11:05 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Cattaraugus | 40 min |
| Jul 13, 12:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 59 min | |
| Jul 13, 1:10 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Erie, Genesee | 3 hr |
| Jul 13, 2:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Livingston, Wyoming | 55 min |
| Jul 13, 3:30 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Allegany | 45 min |
| Jul 13, 3:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus | 57 min |
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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.