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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 15, 2017Genesee County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jun 15, 2017, 9:16 AM EDT for Genesee County, New York. It was in force for 59 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: Jun 15, 2017, 9:16 AM EDT (13:16 UTC)
Expired: Jun 15, 2017, 10:15 AM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Genesee County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:15 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, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 26 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: 1392 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 90 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Buffalo, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jun 15, 7:09 AM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 15, 7:09 AM EDT, 2 hours 7 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 15, 5:04 AM EDT, 4 hours 12 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jun 15, 9:16 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 15, 10:17 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Livingston, Monroe	58 min
Jun 15, 11:24 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Ontario, Wayne	66 min
Jun 15, 11:41 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingston and 4 more	11 hr
Jun 15, 3:46 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Livingston, Ontario, Wyoming	3 hr
Jun 15, 4:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Ontario	44 min
Jun 15, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario	66 min
Jun 15, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee, Livingston, Monroe	51 min
Jun 15, 5:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Livingston, Ontario, Wyoming	7 hr
Jun 15, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Ontario	64 min
Jun 15, 5:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee, Monroe, Orleans	49 min
Jun 15, 5:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	29 min
Jun 15, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		52 min
Jun 15, 6:31 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Allegany	29 min
Jun 15, 6:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Monroe	63 min
Jun 15, 7:05 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Livingston, Monroe, Ontario	3 hr

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.