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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 8, 2016Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2016, 9:41 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 64 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 8, 2016, 9:41 PM EDT (01:41 UTC)
Expired
Jul 8, 2016, 10:45 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:40 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, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 00:00Z on 2016-07-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 88 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 00:00Z on 2016-07-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -19 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
88 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1357 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-19 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-15 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

467 
WWUS81 KBUF 090141
SPSBUF

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
941 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016

NYZ012-019>021-085-090245-
ALLEGANY-SOUTHERN ERIE-CATTARAUGUS-CHAUTAUQUA-WYOMING-
941 PM EDT FRI JUL 8 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN ERIE...CATTARAUGUS...
WESTERN ALLEGANY...SOUTHERN WYOMING AND CHAUTAUQUA COUNTIES...

AT 938 PM EDT...NUMEROUS STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE FOUND OVER
CENTRAL LAKE ERIE AS WELL AS OVER PARTS OF NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA.
THIS ACTIVITY WAS GENERALLY MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. THE STORMS WILL
AFFECT PARTS OF THE WESTERN SOUTHERN TIER THROUGH MIDNIGHT.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 40 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE WITH THESE STORMS. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
JAMESTOWN...OLEAN...DUNKIRK...FREDONIA...HAMBURG...SALAMANCA...
ALLEGANY STATE PARK...EVANS...BOSTON AND EDEN.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS...
 INTERSTATE 90 BETWEEN EXITS 61 AND 57A.
 INTERSTATE 86 BETWEEN EXITS 4 AND 30.

TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS...AND MAY
CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED
ROADWAYS.

THE STORMS MAY INTENSIFY...SO BE CERTAIN TO MONITOR LOCAL RADIO
STATIONS AND AVAILABLE TELEVISION STATIONS FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE.

PERSONS IN CAMPGROUNDS SHOULD CONSIDER SEEKING STURDY SHELTER UNTIL
THE STORMS PASS.

LAT...LON 4200 7976 4227 7976 4228 7973 4231 7977
      4244 7950 4253 7939 4260 7919 4273 7908
      4273 7808 4200 7803
TIME...MOT...LOC 0138Z 253DEG 42KT 4209 8015 

$$

RSH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 8, 10:40 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFChautauqua35 min
Jul 8, 11:01 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFCattaraugus59 min
Jul 8, 11:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus, Chautauqua52 min
Jul 9, 4:46 AM EDTBeach Hazards StatementBUFChautauqua, Erie19 hr
Jul 9, 4:47 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBUF21 hr
Jul 9, 2:07 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFGenesee53 min
Jul 9, 3:23 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF67 min
Jul 9, 7:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF41 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.