Alert archive / New York / Beach Hazards Statements in 2016
Beach Hazards Statement 20, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this beach hazards statement at Sep 2, 2016, 3:42 AM EDT for 7 counties in New York. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 2, 2016, 3:42 AM EDT (07:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 2, 2016, 10:25 AM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Cayuga County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Niagara County, NY, Orleans County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Wayne County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:43 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 85 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -35 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1137 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 8 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 12 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
498 WHUS41 KBUF 020742 CFWBUF URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 342 AM EDT FRI SEP 2 2016 NYZ019-021500- /O.NEW.KBUF.BH.S.0020.160902T0742Z-160902T1500Z/ CHAUTAUQUA- 342 AM EDT FRI SEP 2 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EDT THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EDT THIS MORNING. * LOCATIONS...BEACHES OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. * TIMING...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. && $$ NYZ001>006-021500- /O.NEW.KBUF.BH.S.0020.160902T0742Z-160902T1500Z/ NIAGARA-ORLEANS-MONROE-WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO- 342 AM EDT FRI SEP 2 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EDT THIS MORNING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT...WHICH IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 AM EDT THIS MORNING. * LOCATIONS...BEACHES OF NIAGARA...ORLEANS...MONROE...WAYNE... NORTHERN CAYUGA...AND OSWEGO COUNTIES. * TIMING...THROUGH LATE THIS MORNING. * IMPACTS...STRONG CURRENTS AND DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THERE IS A HIGH SWIM RISK. THIS MEANS LIFE THREATENING WAVES AND CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. STAY OUT OF THE WATER AND STAY AWAY FROM DANGEROUS AREAS LIKE PIERS AND BREAKWALLS. && $$ HITCHCOCK
1 follow-up statement
513 WHUS41 KBUF 021425 CFWBUF URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1025 AM EDT FRI SEP 2 2016 NYZ001>006-019-021530- /O.CAN.KBUF.BH.S.0020.000000T0000Z-160902T1500Z/ NIAGARA-ORLEANS-MONROE-WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-CHAUTAUQUA- 1025 AM EDT FRI SEP 2 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS CANCELLED THE BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT. WHILE THE HIGH SWIMMING RISK CONDITIONS HAVE DIMINISHED...WINDS AND WAVES WILL CONTINUE TO BRING A MODERATE SWIMMING RISK THROUGH EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. $$ WOOD
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.