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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

February 6, 2018Lewis County, Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Feb 6, 2018, 3:50 PM EST for Lewis County, Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 55 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 6, 2018, 3:50 PM EST (20:50 UTC)
Expired: Feb 6, 2018, 4:45 PM EST
In force: 55 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Lewis County, NY, Oswego County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:51 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 209 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: 1377 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 93 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 184 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 339 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 Feb 6, 3:24 PM EST, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Feb 6, 3:24 PM EST, 26 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Feb 6, 3:29 PM EST, 21 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Feb 6, 10:02 AM EST, 5 hours 48 minutes before

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
Issued by National Weather Service Cleveland OH
1002 AM EST TUE FEB 6 2018

NYZ006-007-061700-
Jefferson-Oswego-
1002 AM EST TUE FEB 6 2018

...A BAND OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN JEFFERSON AND
NORTH CENTRAL OSWEGO COUNTIES...

At 957 AM EST, A band of lake effect snow producing snow fall rates
of 2 to 3 inches per hour was located along a line extending from
Ellisburg to Watertown. This band of lake effect snow is slowly
moving south through the remainder of the morning.

Locations impacted include...
Watertown, Sandy Island Beach State Park, Fort Drum, Stony Point,
Adams, Dexter, Glen Park, Adams Center, Henderson Harbor, Southwick
Beach State Park, Sackets Harbor, Henderson, Black River,
Smithville, Rodman, Brownville, Lorraine, Sandy Creek, Evans Mills
and Lacona.

A winter weather advisory is in effect for the area. Please monitor
local media outlets and the national weather service for further
statements.

LAT...LON 4412 7563 4389 7574 4388 7584 4380 7585
      4379 7579 4368 7589 4360 7620 4361 7625
      4381 7626 4386 7633 4395 7613 4395 7625
      4409 7594
TIME...MOT...LOC 1457Z 260DEG 4KT 4398 7585 4362 7635

Special weather statement, Feb 6, 3:50 PM EST, 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
Feb 6, 8:16 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Jefferson	89 min
Feb 6, 10:02 AM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Jefferson	118 min
Feb 6, 2:55 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Jefferson, Lewis, Livingston and 5 more	27 hr
Feb 6, 2:55 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BUF	Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans	24 hr
Feb 6, 4:54 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	51 min
Feb 6, 6:27 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Jefferson	48 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.