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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

April 14, 2019Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Apr 14, 2019, 10:51 PM EDT for Wayne 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
Apr 14, 2019, 10:51 PM EDT (02:51 UTC)
Expired
Apr 14, 2019, 11:45 PM EDT
In force
54 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

County Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 140 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2019-04-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2019-04-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 586 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
605 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
103 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
586 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
582 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.4

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

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 Apr 14, 10:50 PM EDT, 1 minute earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 14, 10:50 PM EDT, 1 minute before
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Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 14, 10:14 PM EDT, 37 minutes before
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In the hours before

Local storm report, Apr 14, 9:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 47 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
904 PM EDT SUN APR 14 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0810 PM     HAIL             DUNKIRK                 42.48N  79.33W
04/14/2019  M1.00 INCH       CHAUTAUQUA         NY   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

EVENT NUMBER BUF1901276

SJW
Local storm report, Apr 14, 9:28 PM EDT, 1 hour 23 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
928 PM EDT SUN APR 14 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0903 PM     TSTM WND DMG     SALAMANCA               42.16N  78.72W
04/14/2019                   CATTARAUGUS        NY   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN IN SALAMANCA

&&

EVENT NUMBER BUF1901278

SJW
Local storm report, Apr 14, 9:32 PM EDT, 1 hour 19 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
932 PM EDT SUN APR 14 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0903 PM     TSTM WND DMG     LITTLE VALLEY           42.25N  78.80W
04/14/2019                   CATTARAUGUS        NY   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TELEPHONE POLES AND WIRES DOWN IN LITTLE VALLEY

&&

EVENT NUMBER BUF1901279

SJW
Local storm report, Apr 14, 9:43 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
943 PM EDT SUN APR 14 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0743 PM     TSTM WND DMG     FINDLEY LAKE            42.12N  79.73W
04/14/2019                   CHAUTAUQUA         NY   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN IN FINDLEY LAKE

&&

EVENT NUMBER BUF1901280

SJW
Local storm report, Apr 14, 9:44 PM EDT, 1 hour 7 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
944 PM EDT SUN APR 14 2019

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0747 PM     TSTM WND DMG     MINA                    42.13N  79.69W
04/14/2019                   CHAUTAUQUA         NY   LAW ENFORCEMENT

            TREES DOWN IN MINA

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EVENT NUMBER BUF1901281

SJW
Special weather statement, Apr 14, 10:51 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
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The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 14, 8:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie57 min
Apr 14, 8:20 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF40 min
Apr 14, 8:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus, Erie48 min
Apr 14, 9:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus, Livingston, Wyoming47 min
Apr 14, 9:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany36 min
Apr 14, 9:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLivingston, Ontario, Wyoming48 min
Apr 14, 11:48 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFOswego42 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2019Every special weather statement in 2019

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.