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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 3, 2018, 10:21 AM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 24 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
- Aug 3, 2018, 10:21 AM EDT (14:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 3, 2018, 10:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Allegany County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:21 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, 2.4 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 404 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -24 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 930 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -12 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
041 WWUS81 KBUF 031421 SPSBUF Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Buffalo NY 1021 AM EDT FRI AUG 3 2018 NYZ021-031445- Allegany- 1021 AM EDT FRI AUG 3 2018 ...A HEAVY SHOWER WILL AFFECT EAST CENTRAL ALLEGANY COUNTY... At 1019 AM EDT, a shower was located near Hartsville, or 10 miles southwest of Hornell. The shower is nearly stationary. Locations impacted include... Alfred and Andover. Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this shower, and may cause localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded roadways. LAT...LON 4214 7788 4223 7784 4229 7774 4212 7774 TIME...MOT...LOC 1419Z 253DEG 4KT 4219 7775 $$ HSK
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 3, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Chautauqua | 54 min |
| Aug 3, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Niagara, Orleans | 67 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.