Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2017
Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Feb 1, 2017, 8:09 AM EST for Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 81 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
- Feb 1, 2017, 8:09 AM EST (13:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 1, 2017, 9:30 AM EST
- In force
- 81 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 87 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:12 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, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 841 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 71 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 126 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 144 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
004
WWUS81 KBUF 011309
SPSBUF
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
809 AM EST WED FEB 1 2017
NYZ019-020-011430-
Chautauqua-Cattaraugus-
809 AM EST WED FEB 1 2017
...A BAND OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL AFFECT CATTARAUGUS AND CHAUTAUQUA
COUNTIES...
A band of lake effect snow producing snow fall rates of 1 to 2
inches per hour will briefly move across southern Chautauqua and
southern Cattaraugus counties. This period of lake effect snow is
expected to be relatively brief, lasting for a 1 to 2 hour period at
any one location and producing a few inches of accumulation.
Locations impacted include...
Ripley, Sherman, Jamestown, Olean, Salamanca, Allegany State Park,
Westfield, Lakewood, Falconer, Ashford, Allegany and Mayville.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 90 near exit 61.
Interstate 86 between exits 4 and 27.
Use extra caution if you must travel into or through this band of
heavy lake effect snow. Be prepared for very poor visibility and
snow cover on roads.
LAT...LON 4237 7862 4221 7834 4200 7837 4200 7976
4227 7976 4228 7973 4231 7977 4232 7967
$$
HITCHCOCKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 6:47 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Lewis | 58 min |
| Feb 1, 7:50 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Lewis | 85 min |
| Feb 1, 8:21 AM EST | Lake Effect Snow Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, Wayne | 37 hr |
| Feb 1, 9:17 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Lewis | 73 min |
| Feb 1, 10:32 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Lewis | 73 min |
| Feb 1, 11:51 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Lewis | 54 min |
| Feb 1, 12:51 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 54 min |
| Feb 1, 12:58 PM EST | Lake Effect Snow Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, Wayne | 72 hr |
| Feb 1, 1:46 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 44 min |
| Feb 1, 2:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 61 min |
| Feb 1, 3:29 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 46 min |
| Feb 1, 4:15 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 60 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.