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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jan 26, 2021, 11:32 AM EST for 7 counties in New York. It was in force for 58 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
- Jan 26, 2021, 11:32 AM EST (16:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jan 26, 2021, 12:30 PM EST
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Genesee County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Niagara County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Orleans County, NY, Wayne County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1005 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 76 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 295 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 347 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
916
WWUS81 KBUF 261632
SPSBUF
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
1132 AM EST Tue Jan 26 2021
NYZ001>004-010>014-261730-
Ontario-Livingston-Wyoming-Orleans-Wayne-Genesee-Monroe-Niagara-
Northern Erie-
1132 AM EST Tue Jan 26 2021
...AN AREA OF HEAVY SNOW WILL AFFECT WAYNE...NORTHERN WYOMING...
NORTHEASTERN ERIE...NORTHERN LIVINGSTON...NIAGARA...ORLEANS...
GENESEE...MONROE AND ONTARIO COUNTIES...
At 1130 AM EST, an area of heavy snow was located along a line
extending from near Buffalo and Niagara Falls to near Canandaigua
was moving northeast at 35 to 40 mph. This area of heavy snow will
reduce the visibility to under a quarter mile and produce snow at a
rate of at least an inch an hour. While the heavy snow will only
last 60 to 90 minutes at any given location...this will be enough to
cover most roadways.
Locations impacted include...
Buffalo, Rochester, Greece, Cheektowaga, Irondequoit, North
Tonawanda, Clarence, Chili, Lockport, Batavia, Kenmore, Depew,
Amherst, Tonawanda, Geneva, Canandaigua, Lancaster, Brockport,
Geneseo and East Rochester.
This includes the following highways...
Interstate 390 between exits 7 and 12.
Interstate 90 between exits 52 and 42.
Visibilities will drop quickly to less than a quarter of a mile in
this area of heavy snow.
LAT...LON 4339 7872 4342 7808 4339 7775 4328 7754
4333 7717 4331 7697 4338 7674 4302 7686
4301 7696 4276 7697 4276 7731 4265 7737
4292 7890 4334 7892
$$
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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.