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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

December 8, 2016Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Dec 8, 2016, 10:31 PM EST for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 89 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: Dec 8, 2016, 10:31 PM EST (03:31 UTC)
Expired: Dec 9, 2016, 12:00 AM EST
In force: 89 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Oswego County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:33 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 201 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1084 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 44 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: -4 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

177 
WWUS81 KBUF 090331
SPSBUF

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
1031 PM EST THU DEC 8 2016

NYZ006>008-090500-
Lewis-Jefferson-Oswego-
1031 PM EST THU DEC 8 2016

...A BAND OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN LEWIS...EXTREME
SOUTHERN JEFFERSON...AND OSWEGO COUNTIES...

At 1029 PM EST, A band of lake effect snow producing snow fall rates
of 2 TO 3 inches per hour extended from Mexico and Pulaski inland
across the southern Tug Hill region. This band of snow will drift
slowly south through the late evening hours.

Locations impacted include...
Oswego, Scriba, Mexico, Pulaski, Parish, Redfield, Williamstown,
Osceola, and West Leyden.

This includes Interstate 81 between exits 33 and 38.
 
Use extra caution if you must travel into or through this dangerous
snow squall. Rapid changes in visibility and potentially slick roads
are likely to lead to accidents. Consider delaying travel until the
squall passes your location.

LAT...LON 4342 7553 4348 7581 4336 7587 4339 7662
      4342 7662 4339 7665 4339 7673 4356 7645
      4356 7628 4369 7626 4375 7513 4361 7511
$$

Hitchcock

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 8, 7:02 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	88 min
Dec 8, 7:05 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Oswego	85 min
Dec 8, 8:41 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis, Oswego	94 min
Dec 8, 11:53 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Monroe, Orleans, Wayne	112 min
Dec 9, 4:26 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	109 min
Dec 9, 8:53 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Genesee, Niagara, Orleans	52 min
Dec 9, 4:58 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	92 min
Dec 9, 6:33 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	87 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.