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Beach Hazards Statement 14, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 6, 20164 counties in New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 6, 2016, 4:27 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 6, 2016, 4:27 PM EDT (20:27 UTC)
Expired
Aug 6, 2016, 10:32 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Jefferson County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:27 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, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 189 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2016-08-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2016-08-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1278 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

736 
WHUS41 KBUF 062027
CFWBUF

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
427 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016

NYZ004>007-070300-
/O.NEW.KBUF.BH.S.0014.160806T2027Z-160807T0300Z/
WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-JEFFERSON-
427 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016

...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS
EVENING...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A BEACH
HAZARDS STATEMENT...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM EDT THIS
EVENING.

* LOCATIONS...BEACHES OF WAYNE...NORTHERN CAYUGA...OSWEGO...AND 
  JEFFERSON COUNTIES.

* TIMING...THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING.

* IMPACTS...STRONG CURRENTS AND DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THERE IS A HIGH SWIM
RISK. THIS MEANS LIFE THREATENING WAVES AND CURRENTS ARE
EXPECTED. STAY OUT OF THE WATER AND STAY AWAY FROM DANGEROUS
AREAS LIKE PIERS AND BREAKWALLS.

&&

$$
1 follow-up statement
816 
WHUS41 KBUF 070232
CFWBUF

URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1032 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016

NYZ004>007-070345-
/O.CAN.KBUF.BH.S.0014.000000T0000Z-160807T0300Z/
WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-JEFFERSON-
1032 PM EDT SAT AUG 6 2016

...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED...

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS CANCELLED THE BEACH
HAZARDS STATEMENT.

DECREASING WINDS OVERNIGHT WILL ALLOW WAVES IN THE SURF ZONE TO
SUBSIDE TONIGHT.

$$

Nearby

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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.