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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 16, 2016Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 16, 2016, 4:21 PM EDT for Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 24 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 16, 2016, 4:21 PM EDT (20:21 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 2016, 4:45 PM EDT
In force
24 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

County Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:23 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, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 146 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 2016-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 21 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 2016-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 40 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
21 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-68 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1087 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
40 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
132 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

648 
WWUS81 KBUF 162021
SPSBUF

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
421 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016

NYZ004-162045-
WAYNE-
421 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHERN WAYNE COUNTY...

AT 421 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER
WILLIAMSON AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

WINDS IN EXCESS OF 30 MPH ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
WILLIAMSON...SODUS...CHIMNEY BLUFFS STATE PARK...SODUS POINT...
PORT BAY...EAST WILLIAMSON AND PULTNEYVILLE.

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

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 4330 7673 4315 7720 4326 7730 4333 7719
      4333 7714 4331 7697 4334 7691 4335 7681
      4337 7676
TIME...MOT...LOC 2021Z 247DEG 40KT 4324 7717 

$$

REYNOLDS

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 2:00 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBUF33 hr
Aug 16, 10:55 AM EDTGale WarningBUF15 hr
Aug 16, 3:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFMonroe30 min
Aug 16, 4:02 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF58 min
Aug 16, 4:37 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFErie38 min
Aug 16, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga, Oswego66 min
Aug 16, 4:58 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF32 min
Aug 16, 6:09 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFLewis, Oswego36 min
Aug 16, 6:46 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFLewis29 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.