Alert archive / New York / Special Weather Statements in 2021
Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Mar 26, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 45 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
- Mar 26, 2021, 8:00 AM EDT (12:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 26, 2021, 8:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Oswego County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:04 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 198 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -438 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 578 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 202 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 311 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
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WWUS81 KBUF 261200
SPSBUF
Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
800 AM EDT Fri Mar 26 2021
NYZ006>008-261245-
Jefferson-Oswego-Lewis-
800 AM EDT Fri Mar 26 2021
...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTH CENTRAL JEFFERSON...
SOUTHWESTERN LEWIS AND OSWEGO COUNTIES...
At 800 AM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located near Fulton, moving
northeast at 60 mph.
Winds in excess of 40 mph and pea size hail are possible with this
storm.
Locations impacted include...
Fulton, Sandy Island Beach State Park, Pulaski, Central Square,
Adams, Redfield, Selkirk Shores State Park, Mexico Point State Park,
Whetstone Gulf State Park, Battle Island State Park, Hastings,
Volney, Richland, Palermo, New Haven, Mexico, Martinsburg,
Williamstown, Orwell and Lorraine.
This includes Interstate 81 between exits 32 and 40.
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.
LAT...LON 4348 7580 4348 7581 4346 7582 4326 7617
4333 7648 4356 7629 4357 7628 4381 7609
4375 7533
TIME...MOT...LOC 1200Z 223DEG 53KT 4334 7629
$$
RSHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 25, 10:02 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 31 hr | |
| Mar 26, 2:27 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie, Wyoming | 48 min |
| Mar 26, 7:00 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 45 min | |
| Mar 26, 7:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 7:47 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans | 45 min |
| Mar 26, 7:54 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 66 min | |
| Mar 26, 8:50 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 55 min | |
| Mar 26, 9:44 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 61 min | |
| Mar 26, 9:58 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 47 min |
| Mar 26, 10:38 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 37 min |
| Mar 26, 10:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego | 61 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.