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Lake Effect Snow Watch 5, NWS Buffalo, NY

February 16, 2015Cayuga County, Oswego County, Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lake effect snow watch at Feb 16, 2015, 11:18 AM EST for Cayuga County, Oswego County, Wayne County, New York. It took effect at Feb 18, 2015, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 16, 2015, 11:18 AM EST (16:18 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 18, 2015, 7:00 PM EST
Expired
Feb 18, 2015, 3:37 AM EST
In force
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 16:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 Feb 16, 10:18 AM EST, 1 hour earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 16, 10:18 AM EST, 1 hour 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.