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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

February 1, 2017Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Feb 1, 2017, 4:15 PM EST for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 60 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, 4:15 PM EST (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Feb 1, 2017, 5:15 PM EST
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Oswego County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 706 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 86 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 185 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

735 
WWUS81 KBUF 012115
SPSBUF

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
415 PM EST WED FEB 1 2017

NYZ004>006-008-012215-
Oswego-Lewis-Wayne-Northern Cayuga-
415 PM EST WED FEB 1 2017

...A BAND OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN WAYNE...
SOUTHERN LEWIS...CAYUGA AND OSWEGO COUNTIES...

At 412 PM EST, A band of lake effect snow producing snow fall rates 
of up to 2 inches per hour will continue across southern and central 
Oswego, southern Lewis, northern Cayuga and northeastern Wayne 
Counties this afternoon.

Locations impacted include...
Oswego, Fulton, Fair Haven Beach State Park, Pulaski, Central Square,
Redfield, Selkirk Shores State Park, Highmarket, Mexico Point State
Park and Nine Mile Point.

This includes Interstate 81 between exits 32 and 36.
 
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 covered roads.

LAT...LON 4342 7553 4348 7581 4333 7589 4321 7588
      4324 7613 4327 7620 4324 7621 4331 7696
      4339 7673 4356 7645 4356 7628 4362 7626
      4367 7512 4361 7511
$$

Welch

The 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, 8:09 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	81 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

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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.