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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

September 4, 2019Onondaga County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Sep 4, 2019, 7:14 AM EDT for Onondaga County, New York. It was in force for 31 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: Sep 4, 2019, 7:14 AM EDT (11:14 UTC)
Expired: Sep 4, 2019, 7:45 AM EDT
In force: 31 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Onondaga County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:18 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 213 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: 34 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1315 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 160 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 295 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.3

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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 Sep 3, 7:51 PM EDT, 11 hours 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 3, 7:51 PM EDT, 11 hours 23 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
Sep 3, 10:32 PM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	BUF	Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Jefferson, Monroe, Niagara and 3 more	21 hr
Sep 4, 4:13 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		62 min
Sep 4, 4:23 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	37 min
Sep 4, 4:50 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Cattaraugus	25 min
Sep 4, 5:44 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		61 min
Sep 4, 6:47 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		58 min
Sep 4, 7:05 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	55 min
Sep 4, 7:09 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Genesee, Monroe	51 min
Sep 4, 8:00 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	45 min
Sep 4, 8:30 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Wayne	45 min
Sep 4, 8:47 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	28 min

Nearby

Special Weather Statements in New York, 2019 Every 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.