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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Feb 20, 2021, 6:51 AM EST for Erie County, Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 84 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
- Feb 20, 2021, 6:51 AM EST (11:51 UTC)
- Expired
- Feb 20, 2021, 8:15 AM EST
- In force
- 84 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Erie County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:52 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, 11.9 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 862 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 25 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
667
WWUS81 KBUF 201151
SPSBUF
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
651 AM EST Sat Feb 20 2021
NYZ010>012-085-201315-
Southern Erie-Wyoming-Genesee-Northern Erie-
651 AM EST Sat Feb 20 2021
...A BAND OF LAKE EFFECT SNOW WILL AFFECT WYOMING...SOUTHERN ERIE AND
SOUTHWESTERN GENESEE COUNTIES...
At 646 AM EST, A stationary band of heavy lake effect snow will
continue to producing snow fall rates of 1 to 2 inches per hour
producing difficult to near impossible travel conditions across
southern Erie County for the following towns Eden, N. Boston,
Colden, and Holland this morning.
Locations impacted include...
West Seneca, Hamburg, East Aurora, Evans, Boston, Eden, Marilla,
Perry, Warsaw, Bennington, Colden, Orchard Park, Blasdell, Attica,
Angola, Arcade, North Collins, Chaffee, Wales Center and North
Boston.
This includes Interstate 90 between exits 57A and 56.
Visibilities will drop quickly to less than a quarter of a mile in
this band of lake effect snow.
Icy roads are possible as the snow melts on the roads then quickly
refreezes.
LAT...LON 4257 7927 4259 7919 4264 7916 4267 7912
4272 7909 4274 7905 4292 7833 4278 7796
4252 7822 4252 7846 4254 7847 4252 7852
4254 7907 4257 7911 4255 7919 4255 7932
$$
ReynoldsThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 20, 4:26 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 21 hr | |
| Feb 20, 4:42 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie, Wyoming | 78 min |
| Feb 20, 8:12 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie | 63 min |
| Feb 20, 8:42 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Niagara, Orleans | 63 min |
| Feb 20, 10:04 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Orleans | 56 min |
| Feb 20, 10:48 AM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie, Genesee | 57 min |
| Feb 20, 2:17 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Genesee, Orleans | 58 min |
| Feb 20, 2:23 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wyoming | 52 min |
| Feb 20, 4:14 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans | 2 hr |
| Feb 20, 4:19 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie | 116 min |
| Feb 20, 6:16 PM EST | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Genesee, Niagara, Orleans | 89 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.