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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 2, 2014Lewis County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 2, 2014, 12:29 PM EDT for Lewis County, New York. It was in force for 31 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: Aug 2, 2014, 12:29 PM EDT (16:29 UTC)
Expired: Aug 2, 2014, 1:00 PM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Lewis County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 56 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -64 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 928 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

217 
WWUS81 KBUF 021629
SPSBUF

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1229 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2014

NYZ008-021700-
LEWIS NY-
1229 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2014

...STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING INTO THE AREA...

* AT 1226 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...GUSTY        
  WINDS...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES       
  NORTHWEST OF LOWVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO BECOME SEVERE AND PRODUCE LARGE HAIL
AND/OR DAMAGING WINDS.

LAT...LON 4395 7562 4398 7546 4374 7548 4381 7574
      4389 7573

$$

APFFEL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 8:01 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BUF	Wayne	3 hr
Aug 1, 8:49 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BUF	Monroe	3 hr
Aug 1, 8:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus	55 min
Aug 1, 9:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Wayne	27 min
Aug 1, 9:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Wayne	3 hr
Aug 1, 9:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus	58 min
Aug 1, 9:54 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Cayuga	36 min
Aug 1, 10:07 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	3 hr
Aug 1, 11:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Cattaraugus	56 min
Aug 2, 12:32 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	58 min
Aug 2, 1:45 AM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BUF	Chautauqua	3 hr
Aug 2, 1:28 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	62 min
Aug 2, 2:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Wyoming	9 hr
Aug 2, 4:22 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Wyoming	83 min
Aug 2, 4:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Oswego	64 min
Aug 2, 4:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		54 min
Aug 2, 4:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		92 min
Aug 2, 5:12 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Wayne, Wyoming	4 hr
Aug 2, 5:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie	4 hr
Aug 2, 5:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		56 min
Aug 2, 5:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		87 min
Aug 2, 5:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Genesee, Wyoming	28 min
Aug 2, 6:50 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Genesee	55 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.