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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 5, 2016, 5:44 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 46 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
- Aug 5, 2016, 5:44 PM EDT (21:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2016, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Cattaraugus County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 60 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 57 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
- 100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -73 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 996 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
620 WWUS81 KBUF 052144 SPSBUF SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 544 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2016 NYZ012-020-085-052230- SOUTHERN ERIE-CATTARAUGUS-WYOMING- 544 PM EDT FRI AUG 5 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHEASTERN ERIE...NORTHERN CATTARAUGUS AND SOUTHWESTERN WYOMING COUNTIES... AT 544 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR GOWANDA AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... SPRINGVILLE...GOWANDA...ARCADE...FRANKLINVILLE...EAST CONCORD... CHAFFEE...ASHFORD HOLLOW...CONCORD...YORKSHIRE AND HOLLAND. TORRENTIAL RAINFALL IS ALSO OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM...AND MAY CAUSE LOCALIZED FLOODING. DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE THROUGH FLOODED ROADWAYS. FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. LIGHTNING CAN STRIKE 10 MILES AWAY FROM A THUNDERSTORM. SEEK A SAFE SHELTER INSIDE A BUILDING OR VEHICLE. THIS STORM 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. LAT...LON 4230 7885 4246 7895 4265 7847 4236 7832 TIME...MOT...LOC 2144Z 258DEG 23KT 4242 7884 $$ REYNOLDS
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 1:35 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 33 hr | |
| Aug 5, 4:56 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Chautauqua | 49 min |
| Aug 5, 7:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 61 min |
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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.