Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2015
Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 1, 2015, 7:13 PM EDT for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 1, 2015, 7:13 PM EDT (23:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 1, 2015, 8:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:14 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 50 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
- 134 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -33 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1056 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 17 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 117 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- -0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
204
WWUS81 KBUF 012313
SPSBUF
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
713 PM EDT SAT AUG 1 2015
NYZ012-021-085-020000-
SOUTHERN ERIE-ALLEGANY-WYOMING-
713 PM EDT SAT AUG 1 2015
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL
ERIE...NORTH CENTRAL ALLEGANY AND SOUTHERN WYOMING COUNTIES...
AT 711 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR EAST AURORA...MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND DIME SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
EAST AURORA...LETCHWORTH STATE PARK...WALES CENTER...PORTAGEVILLE...
BILLINGTON HEIGHTS...HOUGHTON...HOLLAND...SHELDON...EAGLE AND PIKE.
LAT...LON 4252 7831 4270 7868 4278 7863 4278 7853
4267 7798 4259 7803 4258 7805 4257 7804
4242 7813
TIME...MOT...LOC 2311Z 293DEG 26KT 4272 7858
$$
SMITHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 31, 8:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 93 min | |
| Aug 1, 2:56 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego | 64 min |
| Aug 1, 4:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Genesee | 44 min |
| Aug 1, 6:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 61 min | |
| Aug 1, 6:55 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 65 min | |
| Aug 1, 7:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Orleans | 54 min |
| Aug 1, 7:29 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 61 min | |
| Aug 1, 7:52 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Jefferson | 38 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New York, 2015Every special weather statement 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.