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Frost Advisory 2, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this frost advisory at May 14, 2015, 3:37 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Lewis County, Oswego County, New York. It took effect at May 15, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 14, 2015, 3:37 PM EDT (19:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 15, 2015, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 15, 2015, 7:27 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Oswego County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:40 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 1555 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 31 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
447 WWUS71 KBUF 141937 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 337 PM EDT THU MAY 14 2015 NYZ006>008-150400- /O.NEW.KBUF.FR.Y.0002.150515T0600Z-150515T1200Z/ OSWEGO-JEFFERSON-LEWIS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...OSWEGO...WATERTOWN...LOWVILLE 337 PM EDT THU MAY 14 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT FRIDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT FRIDAY. * LOCATIONS...JEFFERSON AND LEWIS COUNTIES...AND THE TUG HILL REGION OF OSWEGO COUNTY. * TIMING...FROM OVERNIGHT TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. * IMPACTS...COLD TEMPERATURES AND PATCHY FROST MAY RESULT IN DAMAGE TO TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO, POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$ JJR
3 follow-up statements
225 WWUS71 KBUF 150212 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1012 PM EDT THU MAY 14 2015 NYZ006>008-151015- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0002.150515T0600Z-150515T1200Z/ OSWEGO-JEFFERSON-LEWIS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...OSWEGO...WATERTOWN...LOWVILLE 1012 PM EDT THU MAY 14 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 8 AM EDT FRIDAY... * LOCATIONS...JEFFERSON AND LEWIS COUNTIES...AND THE TUG HILL REGION OF OSWEGO COUNTY. * TIMING...OVERNIGHT THROUGH EARLY FRIDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. * IMPACTS...LOW TEMPERATURES AND PATCHY FROST MAY RESULT IN DAMAGE TO TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$ RSH
156 WWUS71 KBUF 150544 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 144 AM EDT FRI MAY 15 2015 NYZ006>008-151200- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0002.150515T0600Z-150515T1200Z/ OSWEGO-JEFFERSON-LEWIS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...OSWEGO...WATERTOWN...LOWVILLE 144 AM EDT FRI MAY 15 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * LOCATIONS...JEFFERSON AND LEWIS COUNTIES...AND THE TUG HILL REGION OF OSWEGO COUNTY. * TIMING...EARLY THIS MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. * IMPACTS...LOW TEMPERATURES AND PATCHY FROST MAY RESULT IN DAMAGE TO TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$ THOMAS
988 WWUS71 KBUF 151127 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 727 AM EDT FRI MAY 15 2015 NYZ006>008-151230- /O.CAN.KBUF.FR.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-150515T1200Z/ OSWEGO-JEFFERSON-LEWIS- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...OSWEGO...WATERTOWN...LOWVILLE 727 AM EDT FRI MAY 15 2015 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. $$ THOMAS
Nearby
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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.