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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 27, 2020, 1:12 AM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 33 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
- Aug 27, 2020, 1:12 AM EDT (05:12 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 27, 2020, 1:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Erie County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 55 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:12 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, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 55 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 9 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -48 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 794 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 60 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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</html>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 Aug 26, 10:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 26, 10:53 PM EDT, 2 hours 19 minutes before
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Special weather statement, Aug 27, 1:12 AM EDT, 0 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
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| Aug 26, 9:57 PM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | BUF | Chautauqua, Erie | 24 hr |
| Aug 27, 12:35 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 40 min | |
| Aug 27, 6:03 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 57 min | |
| Aug 27, 6:58 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 62 min | |
| Aug 27, 7:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wayne | 65 min |
| Aug 27, 10:10 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 35 min |
| Aug 27, 10:28 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wayne | 47 min |
| Aug 27, 11:15 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wayne | 30 min |
| Aug 27, 2:26 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Genesee | 34 min |
| Aug 27, 2:29 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Ontario | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Wyoming | 59 min |
| Aug 27, 2:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe, Ontario, Wayne | 64 min |
| Aug 27, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Genesee | 24 min |
| Aug 27, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Niagara | 20 min |
| Aug 27, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 58 min |
| Aug 27, 3:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Niagara | 29 min |
| Aug 27, 3:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 63 min | |
| Aug 27, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Livingston, Wyoming | 61 min |
| Aug 27, 3:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Monroe, Ontario | 68 min |
| Aug 27, 4:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Wyoming | 51 min |
| Aug 27, 4:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 54 min |
| Aug 27, 4:12 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 33 min | |
| Aug 27, 4:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Wyoming | 48 min |
| Aug 27, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Wyoming | 77 min |
| Aug 27, 4:48 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Genesee, Livingston, Monroe | 4 hr |
| Aug 27, 4:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Monroe, Ontario | 46 min |
| Aug 27, 5:03 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 3 hr | |
| Aug 27, 5:17 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Cattaraugus | 28 min |
| Aug 27, 5:30 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 3 hr |
| Aug 27, 6:11 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wayne | 49 min |
| Aug 27, 6:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Ontario | 36 min |
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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.