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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 20, 2021Cattaraugus County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jun 20, 2021, 3:30 PM EDT for Cattaraugus 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: Jun 20, 2021, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired: Jun 20, 2021, 4:15 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Cattaraugus County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:33 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 92 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 926 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 88 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 188 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

832 
WWUS81 KBUF 201930
SPSBUF

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
330 PM EDT Sun Jun 20 2021

NYZ020-202015-
Cattaraugus-
330 PM EDT Sun Jun 20 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN CATTARAUGUS
COUNTY...

At 329 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located 11 miles northeast
of Frewsburg, or 13 miles west of Salamanca, moving east at 25 mph.

Winds in excess of 30 mph are possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Salamanca, Allegany State Park, Great Valley, Carrollton, Randolph,
Napoli, East Randolph, Steamburg and Kill Buck.

This includes Interstate 86 between exits 15 and 21.
 
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

LAT...LON 4209 7906 4217 7906 4223 7904 4225 7860
      4200 7866 4200 7872
TIME...MOT...LOC 1929Z 278DEG 22KT 4216 7898 
$$

HSK

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 8:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Oswego	53 min
Jun 19, 9:51 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BUF	Oswego	2 hr
Jun 19, 10:00 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Oswego	60 min
Jun 20, 2:44 PM EDT	Wind Advisory	BUF	Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans	25 hr
Jun 20, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Cattaraugus	48 min
Jun 20, 4:30 PM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BUF		57 hr
Jun 20, 6:23 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	52 min
Jun 20, 6:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	35 min

Nearby

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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.