Alert archive / New York / Frost Advisories in 2016
Frost Advisory 4, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this frost advisory at May 17, 2016, 7:42 PM EDT for Lewis County, New York. It took effect at May 18, 2016, 2:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 17, 2016, 7:42 PM EDT (23:42 UTC)
- In effect from
- May 18, 2016, 2:00 AM EDT
- Expired
- May 18, 2016, 8:16 AM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Lewis County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 179 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
- 1367 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 77 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
111 WWUS71 KBUF 172342 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 742 PM EDT TUE MAY 17 2016 NYZ008-180745- /O.NEW.KBUF.FR.Y.0004.160518T0600Z-160518T1300Z/ LEWIS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...LOWVILLE 742 PM EDT TUE MAY 17 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A FROST ADVISORY...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM EDT WEDNESDAY. * LOCATIONS...LEWIS COUNTY. * TIMING...FROM OVERNIGHT TONIGHT THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. * IMPACTS...FROST MAY DAMAGE UNPROTECTED TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO, POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$ WOOD
3 follow-up statements
518 WWUS71 KBUF 180234 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1034 PM EDT TUE MAY 17 2016 NYZ008-181045- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0004.160518T0600Z-160518T1300Z/ LEWIS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...LOWVILLE 1034 PM EDT TUE MAY 17 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM 2 AM TO 9 AM EDT WEDNESDAY... * LOCATIONS...LEWIS COUNTY. * TIMING...FROM OVERNIGHT TONIGHT THROUGH LATE WEDNESDAY MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. * IMPACTS...FROST MAY DAMAGE UNPROTECTED TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$
432 WWUS71 KBUF 180844 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 444 AM EDT WED MAY 18 2016 NYZ008-181300- /O.CON.KBUF.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-160518T1300Z/ LEWIS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...LOWVILLE 444 AM EDT WED MAY 18 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EDT THIS MORNING... * LOCATIONS...LEWIS COUNTY. * TIMING...THROUGH LATE THIS MORNING. * TEMPERATURES...IN THE MID 30S. * IMPACTS...FROST MAY DAMAGE UNPROTECTED TENDER VEGETATION. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A FROST ADVISORY IS ISSUED WHEN FROST IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP DURING THE GROWING SEASON. IF YOU ARE IN THE ADVISORY AREA YOU SHOULD TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT TENDER VEGETATION. ALSO... POTTED PLANTS NORMALLY LEFT OUTDOORS SHOULD BE COVERED OR BROUGHT INSIDE AWAY FROM THE COLD. && $$ CHURCH
802 WWUS71 KBUF 181216 NPWBUF URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 816 AM EDT WED MAY 18 2016 NYZ008-181330- /O.CAN.KBUF.FR.Y.0004.000000T0000Z-160518T1300Z/ LEWIS- INCLUDING THE CITY OF...LOWVILLE 816 AM EDT WED MAY 18 2016 ...FROST ADVISORY IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS CANCELLED THE FROST ADVISORY. TEMPERATURES HAVE RISEN ABOVE FREEZING. $$
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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.