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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Dec 5, 2018, 4:49 PM EST for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 41 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 5, 2018, 4:49 PM EST (21:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Dec 5, 2018, 5:30 PM EST
- In force
- 41 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KAGC), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 236 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 554 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 3 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -48 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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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 5, 4:11 PM EST, 38 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 5, 4:11 PM EST, 38 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Dec 5, 4:49 PM EST, 0 minutes before
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
449 PM EST WED DEC 5 2018
NYZ019-052230-
Chautauqua-
449 PM EST WED DEC 5 2018
...AN AREA OF HEAVY SNOW WILL AFFECT CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY...
An area of heavy lake effect snow showers will move eastward off
Lake Erie into Western Chautauqua County through 530 p.m. Snow
showers will rapidly lower visibility to a quarter mile at times,
with snowfall rates of around an inch per hour. Those traveling
should slow down and be prepared for rapidly changing conditions.
Conditions are expected to improve some after 600 p.m. when these
snow showers move further inland and weaken.
This includes Interstate 90 between exit 58 and exit 60.
LAT...LON 4234 7964 4242 7946 4249 7937 4254 7926
4258 7915 4257 7913 4257 7912 4254 7907
4236 7907 4215 7946
TIME...MOT...LOC 2142Z 258DEG 16KT 4247 7920
ApffelThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 5, 3:53 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Jefferson, Lewis and 4 more | 45 hr |
| Dec 5, 3:54 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 63 hr |
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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.