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Lake Effect Snow Watch 3, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lake effect snow watch at Jan 7, 2015, 3:47 PM EST for 8 counties in New York. It took effect at Jan 9, 2015, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jan 7, 2015, 3:47 PM EST (20:47 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jan 9, 2015, 1:00 AM EST
- Expired
- Jan 8, 2015, 4:02 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:44 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, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 1103 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 70 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 28 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 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 watch 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 watch went out at Jan 7, 12:45 PM EST, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 7, 12:45 PM EST, 3 hours 2 minutes before
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Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 6, 7:06 PM EST | Wind Chill Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis | 39 hr |
| Jan 6, 8:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie, Genesee | 91 min |
| Jan 6, 8:23 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Jefferson | 52 min |
| Jan 6, 9:57 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie | 48 min |
| Jan 6, 11:12 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie | 63 min |
| Jan 7, 7:09 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Wyoming | 51 min |
| Jan 7, 7:18 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 57 min |
Nearby
Lake Effect Snow Watches in New York, 2015Every lake effect snow watch 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.