Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2018
Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 6, 2018, 3:21 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 54 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 6, 2018, 3:21 PM EDT (19:21 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 6, 2018, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:22 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 33 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
- 570 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -74 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1257 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 9 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 32 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
713
WWUS81 KBUF 061921
SPSBUF
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
321 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2018
NYZ001-062015-
Niagara-
321 PM EDT MON AUG 6 2018
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NIAGARA COUNTY...
At 320 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Fort Niagara
State Park, or 11 miles northwest of Niagara Falls, moving east at 30
mph.
Wind gusts up to 50 mph and half inch hail are possible with this
storm.
Locations impacted include...
Niagara Falls, North Tonawanda, Lockport, Newfane, Lewiston,
Youngstown, Fort Niagara State Park, Sanborn, Wilson and Cambria
Center.
LAT...LON 4330 7909 4340 7864 4309 7864 4308 7865
4309 7873 4308 7874 4306 7900 4308 7908
4311 7906 4312 7907 4315 7904 4317 7905
4325 7906 4328 7908
TIME...MOT...LOC 1920Z 265DEG 27KT 4325 7917
$$
ApffelThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2:01 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Livingston, Wyoming | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 2:43 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 62 min | |
| Aug 6, 2:46 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wyoming | 44 min |
| Aug 6, 2:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 63 min | |
| Aug 6, 3:06 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Ontario | 24 min |
| Aug 6, 3:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 63 min | |
| Aug 6, 3:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe, Wayne | 58 min |
| Aug 6, 3:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 41 min | |
| Aug 6, 4:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 52 min | |
| Aug 6, 4:19 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 56 min |
| Aug 6, 4:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis, Oswego | 41 min |
Nearby
Special Weather Statements in New York, 2018Every special weather statement in 2018
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.