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Lake Effect Snow Watch 11, NWS Buffalo, NY

December 6, 2016Cayuga County, Monroe County, Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this lake effect snow watch at Dec 6, 2016, 1:10 PM EST for Cayuga County, Monroe County, Wayne County, New York. It took effect at Dec 8, 2016, 6:00 PM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Dec 6, 2016, 1:10 PM EST (18:10 UTC)
In effect from
Dec 8, 2016, 6:00 PM EST
Expired
Dec 8, 2016, 3:59 AM EST
In force
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:07 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, 6.2 hours before the alert went out and 134 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 2016-12-06Temperature 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 2016-12-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 42 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 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
1158 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
42 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
163 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Dec 6, 4:07 AM ESTLake Effect Snow WatchBUFCattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and 1 more9 hr
Dec 6, 12:43 PM ESTSmall Craft AdvisoryBUF5 days
Dec 6, 1:10 PM ESTLake Effect Snow WarningBUFCattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Jefferson, Lewis and 4 more5 days
Dec 6, 4:54 PM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus, Wyoming11 hr

Nearby

Lake Effect Snow Watches in New York, 2016Every lake effect snow watch in 2016

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.