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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

January 14, 2016Jefferson County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jan 14, 2016, 1:26 AM EST for Jefferson County, New York. It was in force for 79 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jan 14, 2016, 1:26 AM EST (06:26 UTC)
Expired: Jan 14, 2016, 2:45 AM EST
In force: 79 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Jefferson County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:28 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 234 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 62 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 213 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 214 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Buffalo, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jan 14, 12:09 AM EST, 1 hour 17 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 14, 12:09 AM EST, 1 hour 17 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 13, 9:44 PM EST, 3 hours 42 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Jan 13, 9:09 PM EST, 4 hours 17 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 13, 9:45 PM EST, 3 hours 41 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 13, 9:55 PM EST, 3 hours 31 minutes before

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Local storm report, Jan 13, 10:33 PM EST, 2 hours 53 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Jan 14, 1:18 AM EST, 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
118 AM EST THU JAN 14 2016

NYZ001-010-140745-
NIAGARA-NORTHERN ERIE-
118 AM EST THU JAN 14 2016

...A BAND OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW SHIFTING SOUTH ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL
NIAGARA AND NORTHERN ERIE COUNTIES...

AT 114 AM EST...A BAND OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW PRODUCING SNOW FALL RATES
OF UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR EXTENDED ACROSS THE BUFFALO NORTHTOWNS TO
JUST SOUTH OF LOCKPORT. EXPECT THIS BAND TO SHIFT SOUTH THROUGH THE
EARLY MORNING HOURS CROSSING DOWNTOWN BUFFALO TO THE SOUTHTOWNS WITH
LOW VISIBILITIES ALONG WITH SLICK AND SNOW COVERED ROADWAYS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
BUFFALO...CHEEKTOWAGA...WEST SENECA...NORTH TONAWANDA...CLARENCE...
LOCKPORT...LACKAWANNA...KENMORE...DEPEW AND AMHERST.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATES 190...290...990 AND 90 BETWEEN EXITS 56
AND 49.

LAT...LON 4302 7889 4306 7890 4318 7871 4298 7847
      4288 7847 4278 7884 4278 7885 4282 7887
      4284 7886 4287 7889 4288 7888 4288 7889
      4295 7891 4296 7892 4295 7893 4297 7892
      4299 7894

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Special weather statement, Jan 14, 1:26 AM EST, 0 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
126 AM EST THU JAN 14 2016

NYZ007-008-140745-
LEWIS-JEFFERSON-
126 AM EST THU JAN 14 2016

...A BAND OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW LIFTING NORTH ACROSS SOUTHERN
JEFFERSON AND WEST CENTRAL LEWIS COUNTIES...

AT 121 AM EST...A BAND OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW PRODUCING SNOW FALL RATES
OF UP TO 2 INCHES PER HOUR EXTENDED ACROSS FAR SOUTHERN JEFFERSON
COUNTY AND EAST TOWARDS MONTAUGE. EXPECT THIS BAND TO SHIFT NORTH
THROUGH THE EARLY MORNING HOURS CROSSING WATERTOWN TO THE SAINT
LAWRENCE RIVER WITH LOW VISIBILITIES ALONG WITH SLICK AND SNOW
COVERED ROADWAYS.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WATERTOWN...STONY POINT...CARTHAGE...WEST CARTHAGE...ADAMS...
DEXTER...GLEN PARK...BARNES CORNERS...SOUTHWICK BEACH STATE PARK AND
ADAMS CENTER.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 81 BETWEEN EXITS 39 AND 47.

LAT...LON 4402 7626 4403 7620 4399 7621 4403 7612
      4401 7561 4368 7562 4371 7602 4368 7603
      4369 7620 4382 7623 4384 7630 4389 7623
      4385 7620 4398 7605 4400 7608 4396 7616
      4399 7623 4396 7628 4400 7627 4404 7630

SMITH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 13, 8:14 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Niagara	91 min
Jan 14, 1:18 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie	87 min
Jan 14, 3:24 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie	81 min
Jan 14, 4:59 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	91 min
Jan 14, 6:36 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	84 min
Jan 14, 8:58 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis, Oswego	107 min
Jan 14, 11:56 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	94 min
Jan 14, 12:14 PM EST	Lake Effect Snow Advisory	BUF	Lewis, Oswego	7 hr
Jan 14, 1:41 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BUF	Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Ontario and 3 more	8 hr

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2016 Every special weather statement 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.