Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2016
Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
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.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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.
- 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
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
$$
REYNOLDSThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:00 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 33 hr | |
| Aug 16, 10:55 AM EDT | Gale Warning | BUF | 15 hr | |
| Aug 16, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Monroe | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 58 min | |
| Aug 16, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie | 38 min |
| Aug 16, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego | 66 min |
| Aug 16, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 32 min | |
| Aug 16, 6:09 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Lewis, Oswego | 36 min |
| Aug 16, 6:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Lewis | 29 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New York, 2016Every 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.