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Winter Storm Watch 1, NWS Buffalo, NY

January 8, 20194 counties in New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this winter storm watch at Jan 8, 2019, 4:06 AM EST for 4 counties in New York. It took effect at Jan 9, 2019, 1:00 AM EST. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 8, 2019, 4:06 AM EST (09:06 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 9, 2019, 1:00 AM EST
Expired: Jan 8, 2019, 2:31 PM EST
In force
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY, Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 50 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:06 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

Detroit, MI (KDTX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 382 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: 458 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 80 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 654 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 689 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 storm watch 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 storm watch went out at Jan 8, 2:27 AM EST, 1 hour 39 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 8, 2:27 AM EST, 1 hour 39 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
Jan 8, 5:36 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BUF		3 days
Jan 8, 2:31 PM EST	Winter Storm Watch	BUF	Cayuga, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego, Wayne	13 hr
Jan 8, 2:31 PM EST	Winter Storm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Jefferson, Lewis and 3 more	48 hr
Jan 8, 2:31 PM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BUF	Allegany, Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara and 2 more	46 hr
Jan 8, 5:13 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	32 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.