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Dense Fog Advisory 2, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 4, 2021Erie County, Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this dense fog advisory at Jun 4, 2021, 4:12 AM EDT for Erie County, Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 4 hr.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 4, 2021, 4:12 AM EDT (08:12 UTC)
Expired
Jun 4, 2021, 8:12 AM EDT
In force
4 hr
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Erie County, NY, Niagara County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:15 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 5 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 2021-06-04Temperature 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°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 2021-06-04The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 32 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
1063 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
32 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

843 
WWUS71 KBUF 040812
NPWBUF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
412 AM EDT Fri Jun 4 2021

NYZ001-010-041300-
/O.NEW.KBUF.FG.Y.0002.210604T0812Z-210604T1300Z/
Niagara-Northern Erie-
Including the cities of Niagara Falls and Buffalo
412 AM EDT Fri Jun 4 2021

...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM EDT THIS MORNING...

* WHAT...Widespread fog with reduced visibilities down to 1/4 
  mile at times.

* WHERE...Western Niagara and Northern Erie counties...
  particularly near Lake Erie and the Niagara River. 

* WHEN...Until 9 AM EDT this morning.

* IMPACTS...Hazardous driving conditions due to low visibility.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If driving, slow down, use your headlights, and leave plenty of
distance ahead of you.

&&

$$
1 follow-up statement
580 
WWUS71 KBUF 041212
NPWBUF

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
812 AM EDT Fri Jun 4 2021

NYZ001-010-041315-
/O.CAN.KBUF.FG.Y.0002.000000T0000Z-210604T1300Z/
Niagara-Northern Erie-
Including the cities of Niagara Falls and Buffalo
812 AM EDT Fri Jun 4 2021

...DENSE FOG ADVISORY IS CANCELLED...

Some patchy fog will persist very close to the Lake Erie shore in
downtown Buffalo, otherwise visibility has improved elsewhere as
fog dissipates.

$$

Hitchcock

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 4, 1:53 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFCattaraugus52 min
Jun 4, 7:25 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBUF27 hr

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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.