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Winter Weather Advisory 22, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this winter weather advisory at Dec 5, 2014, 3:47 AM EST for 6 counties in New York. It took effect at Dec 5, 2014, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for 23 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 5, 2014, 3:47 AM EST (08:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 5, 2014, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 6, 2014, 12:00 PM EST
- In force
- 23 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Oswego County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 117 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 00:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 371 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1570 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 48 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter weather 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 winter weather advisory went out at Dec 4, 11:52 PM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 4, 11:52 PM EST, 3 hours 55 minutes before
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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.