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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 1, 2021Livingston County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 1, 2021, 8:15 PM EDT for Livingston County, New York. It was in force for 30 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
Jul 1, 2021, 8:15 PM EDT (00:15 UTC)
Expired
Jul 1, 2021, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
30 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

County Livingston County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.3 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2021-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 222 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 2021-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -63 square meters per square second.1939587897117136Sfc1 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
222 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-48 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1345 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-63 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-1.1

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The text

As transmitted.

080 
WWUS81 KBUF 020015
SPSBUF

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
815 PM EDT Thu Jul 1 2021

NYZ013-020045-
Livingston-
815 PM EDT Thu Jul 1 2021

...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN LIVINGSTON 
COUNTY...

At 813 PM EDT, strong thunderstorms were clustered near Dansville,
moving southeast at 20 mph.

Winds in excess of 40 mph are possible with this storm.

Locations impacted include...
Dansville, Groveland, Springwater, Ossian and Ossian Center. 

This includes Interstate 390 between exits 4 and 5.
 
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause 
localized flooding. This area of storms has a history of generating 
an inch to an inch and a half of rain for sites upstream in a 30 
minute period of time. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded 
roadways.

LAT...LON 4249 7783 4264 7784 4273 7771 4260 7749
      4258 7749 4258 7766 4253 7766 4253 7772
      4248 7772
TIME...MOT...LOC 0013Z 307DEG 16KT 4263 7774 
$$

RSH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 8:45 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFNiagara30 min
Jul 1, 9:50 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFGenesee, Orleans40 min
Jul 1, 10:28 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFGenesee93 min
Jul 2, 8:44 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFJefferson, Lewis, Oswego2 hr
Jul 2, 10:00 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFChautauqua90 min
Jul 2, 10:31 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFErie44 min
Jul 2, 11:12 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFWayne2 hr
Jul 2, 11:27 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFCattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie2 hr
Jul 2, 12:38 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFGenesee, Livingston, Monroe, Orleans, Wyoming112 min
Jul 2, 1:16 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF44 min
Jul 2, 1:36 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie114 min
Jul 2, 2:20 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFNiagara, Orleans115 min
Jul 2, 2:26 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF34 min
Jul 2, 5:02 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFAllegany58 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.