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Beach Hazards Statement 3, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this beach hazards statement at Jun 12, 2016, 4:03 AM EDT for 7 counties in New York. It took effect at Jun 12, 2016, 5:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 16 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 12, 2016, 4:03 AM EDT (08:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Jun 12, 2016, 5:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- Jun 12, 2016, 9:22 PM EDT
- In force
- 16 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Cayuga County, NY, Jefferson County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Niagara County, NY, Orleans County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Wayne County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:02 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1914 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 187 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
451 WHUS41 KBUF 120803 CFWBUF URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 403 AM EDT SUN JUN 12 2016 NYZ001>007-121615- /O.NEW.KBUF.BH.S.0003.160612T0900Z-160613T0300Z/ NIAGARA-ORLEANS-MONROE-WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-JEFFERSON- 403 AM EDT SUN JUN 12 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT...WHICH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING. * LOCATIONS...BEACHES OF NIAGARA...ORLEANS...MONROE...WAYNE... NORTHERN CAYUGA...OSWEGO...AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. * TIMING...FROM EARLY THIS MORNING 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. && $$
2 follow-up statements
939 WHUS41 KBUF 121426 CFWBUF URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1026 AM EDT SUN JUN 12 2016 NYZ001>007-122230- /O.CON.KBUF.BH.S.0003.000000T0000Z-160613T0300Z/ NIAGARA-ORLEANS-MONROE-WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-JEFFERSON- 1026 AM EDT SUN JUN 12 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT REMAINS IN EFFECT THROUGH THIS EVENING... * LOCATIONS...BEACHES OF NIAGARA...ORLEANS...MONROE...WAYNE... NORTHERN CAYUGA...OSWEGO...AND JEFFERSON COUNTIES. * TIMING...THROUGH LATE THIS EVENING. * IMPACTS...STRONG CURRENTS AND DANGEROUS SWIMMING CONDITIONS. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS ISSUED WHEN THERE IS A HIGH SWIM RISK. THIS MEANS LIFE THREATENING WAVES AND CURRENTS ARE EXPECTED. STAY OUT OF THE WATER AND STAY AWAY FROM DANGEROUS AREAS LIKE PIERS AND BREAKWALLS. && $$ WOOD
533 WHUS41 KBUF 130122 CFWBUF URGENT - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED COASTAL HAZARD MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 922 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2016 NYZ001>007-130230- /O.CAN.KBUF.BH.S.0003.000000T0000Z-160613T0300Z/ NIAGARA-ORLEANS-MONROE-WAYNE-NORTHERN CAYUGA-OSWEGO-JEFFERSON- 922 PM EDT SUN JUN 12 2016 ...BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS CANCELLED THE BEACH HAZARDS STATEMENT. $$ SMITH
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.