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 3, 2015, 12:01 AM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 29 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 3, 2015, 12:01 AM EDT (04:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2015, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:02 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 00:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 34 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
- 112 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -98 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2024 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 41 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
537
WWUS81 KBUF 030401
SPSBUF
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1201 AM EDT MON AUG 3 2015
NYZ001-002-030430-
NIAGARA-ORLEANS-
1201 AM EDT MON AUG 3 2015
...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT NIAGARA AND
NORTHWESTERN ORLEANS COUNTIES...
AT 1200 AM EDT...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WAS NEAR SANBORN...
OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF NIAGARA FALLS...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.
WIND GUSTS OF 50 TO 55 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
NIAGARA FALLS...LOCKPORT...NEWFANE...LEWISTON...YOUNGSTOWN...
MIDDLEPORT...WATERPORT...FORT NIAGARA STATE PARK...SANBORN AND
RIDGEWAY.
LAT...LON 4312 7907 4314 7904 4325 7905 4326 7906
4336 7863 4338 7849 4337 7829 4329 7823
4307 7895 4308 7907
TIME...MOT...LOC 0400Z 242DEG 49KT 4318 7892
$$
SMITHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 10:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 85 min | |
| Aug 2, 11:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Niagara | 23 min |
| Aug 3, 12:21 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 39 min | |
| Aug 3, 12:24 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Orleans | 36 min |
| Aug 3, 9:42 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 63 min | |
| Aug 3, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 3:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 27 min |
| Aug 3, 5:20 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Orleans | 40 min |
| Aug 3, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 53 min | |
| Aug 3, 6:23 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 37 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.