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Beach Hazards Statement 16, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this beach hazards statement at Aug 16, 2016, 9:28 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Aug 17, 2016, 6:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2016, 9:28 PM EDT (01:28 UTC)
- In effect from
- Aug 17, 2016, 6:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Aug 17, 2016, 10:37 AM EDT
- In force
- 5 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 01:32 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, 1.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 966 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 46 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted.
271 WHUS41 KBUF 170128 CFWBUF URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 928 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016 NYZ004>007-170930- /O.NEW.KBUF.BH.S.0016.160817T1200Z-160817T1600Z/ WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-JEFFERSON- 928 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 8 AM EDT WEDNESDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING. * LOCATIONS...BEACHES OF WAYNE...NORTHERN CAYUGA...OSWEGO...AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. * TIMING...WEDNESDAY MORNING. * 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
738 WHUS41 KBUF 170550 CFWBUF URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 150 AM EDT WED AUG 17 2016 NYZ004>007-171500- /O.EXT.KBUF.BH.S.0016.160817T1000Z-160817T1500Z/ WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-JEFFERSON- 150 AM EDT WED AUG 17 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT NOW IN EFFECT FROM 6 AM TO 11 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * LOCATIONS...BEACHES OF WAYNE...NORTHERN CAYUGA...OSWEGO...AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. * TIMING...FROM EARLY THIS MORNING THROUGH LATE THIS MORNING. * IMPACTS...STRONG CURRENTS AND DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THERE IS A HIGH SWIM RISK. THIS MEANS LIFE THREATENING WAVES AND CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. STAY OUT OF THE WATER AND STAY AWAY FROM DANGEROUS AREAS LIKE PIERS AND BREAKWALLS. && $$
218 WHUS41 KBUF 171437 CFWBUF URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1037 AM EDT WED AUG 17 2016 NYZ004>007-171545- /O.CAN.KBUF.BH.S.0016.000000T0000Z-160817T1500Z/ WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-JEFFERSON- 1037 AM EDT WED AUG 17 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS CANCELLED THE BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT. $$
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.