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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at May 28, 2017, 5:26 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 34 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
- May 28, 2017, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2017, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Cattaraugus County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:26 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 83 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
- 1454 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 26 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
031 WWUS81 KBUF 282126 SPSBUF Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Buffalo NY 526 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2017 NYZ020-282200- Cattaraugus- 526 PM EDT SUN MAY 28 2017 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY... At 525 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 9 miles west of Salamanca, moving northeast at 20 mph. Half inch hail is possible with this storm. Brief heavy rainfall is also likely within this storm. Locations impacted include... New Albion, Randolph, Napoli, Little Valley, Cattaraugus, East Randolph, Ellicottville and Steamburg. LAT...LON 4209 7886 4214 7899 4238 7893 4228 7863 TIME...MOT...LOC 2125Z 205DEG 19KT 4217 7890 $$ Welch
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 28, 3:57 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 78 min |
| May 28, 6:05 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Cattaraugus | 55 min |
| May 28, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie | 49 min |
| May 28, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Erie, Wyoming | 47 min |
| May 28, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 45 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.