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Winter Weather Advisory 62, NWS Buffalo, NY

November 13, 2018Cayuga County, Monroe County, Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this winter weather advisory at Nov 13, 2018, 12:58 PM EST for Cayuga County, Monroe County, Wayne County, New York. It took effect at Nov 13, 2018, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 18 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Nov 13, 2018, 12:58 PM EST (17:58 UTC)
In effect from: Nov 13, 2018, 7:00 PM EST
Expired: Nov 14, 2018, 12:39 PM EST
In force: 18 hr
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 132 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:59 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 267 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: 464 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 73 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 340 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 516 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter weather advisory 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 winter weather advisory went out at Nov 13, 10:40 AM EST, 2 hours 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 13, 10:40 AM EST, 2 hours 18 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
Nov 13, 3:45 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	BUF	Cayuga, Oswego, Wayne	9 hr
Nov 13, 3:46 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BUF		42 hr
Nov 13, 12:58 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Oswego, Wayne	21 hr

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.