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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

September 2, 2014Lewis County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Sep 2, 2014, 2:28 PM EDT for Lewis County, New York. It was in force for 62 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: Sep 2, 2014, 2:28 PM EDT (18:28 UTC)
Expired: Sep 2, 2014, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Lewis County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:30 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 172 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: 299 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -45 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 852 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 28 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 148 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 180 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

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What forecasters said that day

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 Sep 2, 2:26 PM EDT, 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 2, 2:26 PM EDT, 2 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 2, 5:00 AM EDT, 9 hours 28 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 2, 2:28 PM EDT, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
228 PM EDT TUE SEP 2 2014

NYZ006-008-021930-
LEWIS NY-OSWEGO NY-
228 PM EDT TUE SEP 2 2014

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM MOVING ACROSS OSWEGO AND INTO LEWIS COUNTIES...

* AT 225 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  STRONG THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL...STRONG GUSTY
  WINDS UP TO 40 MPH...AND HEAVY RAIN.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  REDFIELD...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS AFFECTED BY THE STRONG THUNDERSTORM MAY INCLUDE...
  REDFIELD...
  OSCEOLA...
  OSCEOLA AND NORTH OSCEOLA...
  HIGHMARKET...
  CONSTABLEVILLE...
  LYONS FALLS AND TURIN...
  PORT LEYDEN...

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

FREQUENT 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 4342 7553 4342 7557 4348 7581 4340 7585
      4340 7593 4356 7598 4378 7533 4355 7524

REYNOLDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 1, 9:45 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BUF		18 hr
Sep 1, 11:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		65 min
Sep 1, 11:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie	71 min
Sep 2, 2:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Wayne	46 min
Sep 2, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Oswego	56 min
Sep 2, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus	66 min
Sep 2, 5:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Ontario	60 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2014 Every special weather statement 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.