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Heat Advisory 1, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 5, 20197 counties in New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this heat advisory at Jul 5, 2019, 4:21 AM EDT for 7 counties in New York. It took effect at Jul 5, 2019, 11:00 AM EDT. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 5, 2019, 4:21 AM EDT (08:21 UTC)
In effect from: Jul 5, 2019, 11:00 AM EDT
Expired: Jul 5, 2019, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 7 hr
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Niagara County, NY, Orleans County, NY, Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:20 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 781 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 17 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 heat 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 heat advisory went out at Jul 5, 2:09 AM EDT, 2 hours 12 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 2:09 AM EDT, 2 hours 12 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
Jul 5, 11:05 AM EDT	Lakeshore Flood Watch	BUF	Monroe, Niagara, Orleans, Wayne	22 hr
Jul 5, 12:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	54 min
Jul 5, 1:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Monroe	52 min
Jul 5, 1:41 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	64 min
Jul 5, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Monroe, Wayne	58 min
Jul 5, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	61 min
Jul 5, 2:56 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Wayne	101 min
Jul 5, 3:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	2 hr
Jul 5, 4:10 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Ontario	35 min
Jul 5, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Orleans	45 min
Jul 5, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	36 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.