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Freezing Rain Advisory 1, NWS Buffalo, NY

January 3, 20155 counties in New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this freezing rain advisory at Jan 3, 2015, 10:49 AM EST for 5 counties in New York. It was in force for 11 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 3, 2015, 10:49 AM EST (15:49 UTC)
Expired: Jan 3, 2015, 9:50 PM EST
In force: 11 hr
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Niagara County, NY, Orleans County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:52 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 hours before the alert went out and 36 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 980 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 291 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this freezing rain 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 freezing rain advisory went out at Jan 3, 6:52 AM EST, 3 hours 57 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 3, 6:52 AM EST, 3 hours 57 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 3, 3:31 AM EST	High Wind Warning	BUF	Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans and 1 more	36 hr
Jan 3, 3:51 AM EST	Gale Warning	BUF		60 hr
Jan 3, 3:13 PM EST	Wind Advisory	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 10 more	31 hr

Nearby

Freezing Rain Advisories in New York, 2015 Every freezing rain advisory in 2015

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.