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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 1, 2016Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 1, 2016, 5:13 PM EDT for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 32 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
Jul 1, 2016, 5:13 PM EDT (21:13 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2016, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
32 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

County Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 69 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 2016-07-01Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 2016-07-01The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 85 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
2039 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
120 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

345 
WWUS81 KBUF 012113
SPSBUF

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
513 PM EDT FRI JUL 1 2016

NYZ012-013-021-012145-
ALLEGANY-LIVINGSTON-WYOMING-
513 PM EDT FRI JUL 1 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN LIVINGSTON...
NORTHEASTERN CATTARAUGUS...NORTHWESTERN ALLEGANY AND SOUTHEASTERN
WYOMING COUNTIES...

AT 513 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR HOUGHTON...OR
16 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LETCHWORTH STATE PARK...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH AND HALF INCH HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS
STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
DANSVILLE...LETCHWORTH STATE PARK...MOUNT MORRIS...RUSHFORD...
HOUGHTON...PORTAGEVILLE...GROVELAND...NUNDA...EAGLE AND PIKE.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 390 BETWEEN EXITS 4 AND 7.
 
TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

LAT...LON 4237 7825 4247 7831 4252 7831 4252 7834
      4254 7835 4276 7782 4254 7769 4253 7772
      4250 7772
TIME...MOT...LOC 2113Z 246DEG 34KT 4249 7821 

$$

CHURCH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 4:38 AM EDTBeach Hazards StatementBUFChautauqua, Erie17 hr
Jul 1, 11:57 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFJefferson, Lewis, Oswego63 min
Jul 1, 3:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFChautauqua43 min
Jul 1, 3:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFCattaraugus40 min
Jul 1, 4:12 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFLewis33 min
Jul 1, 4:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFNiagara41 min
Jul 1, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee, Niagara, Orleans25 min
Jul 1, 5:19 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFGenesee26 min
Jul 1, 6:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFMonroe30 min
Jul 1, 7:00 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFLewis30 min
Jul 1, 7:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLewis, Oswego64 min

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.