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Lake Effect Snow Advisory 12, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lake effect snow advisory at Feb 12, 2015, 1:30 PM EST for Cayuga County, Oswego County, Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 8 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 12, 2015, 1:30 PM EST (18:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 12, 2015, 9:42 PM EST
- In force
- 8 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Cayuga County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Wayne County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:32 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.5 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 608 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -33 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 45 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this lake effect snow 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 lake effect snow advisory went out at Feb 12, 12:55 PM EST, 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 12, 12:55 PM EST, 35 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 11, 9:27 PM EST | Heavy Freezing Spray Warning | BUF | 33 hr | |
| Feb 12, 3:41 AM EST | Wind Chill Warning | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 10 more | 32 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:41 AM EST | Wind Chill Advisory | BUF | Cayuga, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, Wayne | 12 hr |
| Feb 12, 4:03 PM EST | Wind Chill Watch | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 10 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 12, 4:40 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 80 min |
| Feb 12, 5:08 PM EST | Lake Effect Snow Warning | BUF | Oswego | 5 hr |
Nearby
Lake Effect Snow Advisories in New York, 2015Every lake effect snow 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.