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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

December 10, 2017Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Dec 10, 2017, 10:14 AM EST for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 61 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 10, 2017, 10:14 AM EST (15:14 UTC)
Expired: Dec 10, 2017, 11:15 AM EST
In force: 61 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Oswego County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:17 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 3.2 hours before the alert went out and 193 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: 903 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 34 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 Dec 10, 8:55 AM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 10, 8:55 AM EST, 1 hour 19 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Dec 10, 5:29 AM EST, 4 hours 45 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Dec 10, 9:25 AM EST, 49 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
925 AM EST SUN DEC 10 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0600 AM     SNOW             5 ESE OSWEGO            43.44N  76.41W
12/10/2017  M3.6 INCH        OSWEGO             NY   COCORAHS

            24-HOUR SNOWFALL.

0700 AM     SNOW             WALES                   42.74N  78.51W
12/10/2017  M3.6 INCH        ERIE               NY   CO-OP OBSERVER

            24-HOUR SNOWFALL.

&&

EVENT NUMBER BUF1701689
EVENT NUMBER BUF1701690

SJW

Special weather statement, Dec 10, 10:14 AM EST, 0 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
1014 AM EST SUN DEC 10 2017

NYZ006>008-101615-
Jefferson-Oswego-Lewis-
1014 AM EST SUN DEC 10 2017

...A BAND OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL JEFFERSON...
SOUTHWESTERN LEWIS AND OSWEGO COUNTIES...

At 1013 AM EST, A band of lake effect snow producing snow fall rates
of up to 1 inch per hour along a line extending from Oswego to
Parish to Osceola.

Locations impacted include...
Oswego, Sandy Island Beach State Park, Pulaski, Redfield, Selkirk
Shores State Park, Highmarket, Mexico Point State Park, Nine Mile
Point, Whetstone Gulf State Park and Hastings.

This includes Interstate 81 between exits 33 and 40.

Visibilities at times will drop to a quarter of a mile in this band
of lake effect snow.

Conditions can deteriorate rapidly in winter weather situations. Be
prepared for snow or ice covered roads. Slow down and allow extra
time when traveling.

LAT...LON 4344 7548 4342 7554 4348 7581 4333 7589
      4332 7586 4330 7587 4328 7605 4346 7663
      4356 7645 4357 7628 4369 7626 4375 7628
      4372 7543

Welch

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 9, 10:28 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie	62 min
Dec 10, 4:09 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BUF	Erie, Genesee	7 hr
Dec 10, 11:17 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	58 min
Dec 10, 11:23 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie, Wyoming	82 min
Dec 10, 12:15 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	60 min
Dec 10, 12:50 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie, Genesee, Wyoming	55 min
Dec 10, 1:21 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	84 min
Dec 10, 1:55 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie, Genesee	95 min
Dec 10, 2:49 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis, Oswego	86 min
Dec 10, 3:45 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BUF	Livingston, Monroe	9 hr
Dec 10, 4:01 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie, Genesee	119 min
Dec 10, 4:08 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	112 min
Dec 10, 5:59 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie	2 hr
Dec 10, 6:05 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	115 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.