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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 28, 2016, 2:21 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 39 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 28, 2016, 2:21 PM EDT (18:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 2016, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:20 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 32 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
- 202 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -175 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1139 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 131 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 145 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted.
412 WWUS81 KBUF 281821 SPSBUF SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 221 PM EDT SUN AUG 28 2016 NYZ001-281900- NIAGARA- 221 PM EDT SUN AUG 28 2016 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CENTRAL NIAGARA COUNTY... AT 220 PM EDT...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SANBORN...OR 8 MILES WEST OF LOCKPORT...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. WINDS IN EXCESS OF 35 MPH AND PEA SIZE HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. THIS STORM IS PRODUCING A TORRENTIAL DOWNPOUR AS WELL...CAPABLE OF GENERATING UP TO AN INCH OF RAIN IN 30 TO 40 MINUTES. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... LOCKPORT...NEWFANE...BARKER...RANSOMVILLE...CAMBRIA CENTER... GASPORT...MODEL CITY AND APPLETON. 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. LAT...LON 4314 7901 4322 7904 4337 7849 4316 7849 TIME...MOT...LOC 1820Z 258DEG 31KT 4320 7886 $$ RSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 3:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Niagara | 26 min |
| Aug 28, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 43 min |
| Aug 28, 3:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans | 49 min |
| Aug 28, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 54 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.