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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 2, 2021Allegany County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 2, 2021, 5:02 PM EDT for Allegany County, 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
Jul 2, 2021, 5:02 PM EDT (21:02 UTC)
Expired
Jul 2, 2021, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

County Allegany County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:05 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, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 78 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 12:00Z on 2021-07-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 348 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 12:00Z on 2021-07-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -6 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
348 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-37 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
782 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-6 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

871 
WWUS81 KBUF 022102
SPSBUF

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
502 PM EDT Fri Jul 2 2021

NYZ013-021-022200-
Allegany-Livingston-
502 PM EDT Fri Jul 2 2021

...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHERN LIVINGSTON
AND NORTHERN ALLEGANY COUNTIES...

At 500 PM EDT, strong thunderstorms were developing over southern 
Livingston county and northern Allegany county. These slow moving, 
heavy rain producing storms were generally moving to the southwest 
at 15 mph. 

Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail will be possible with 
these storms.

Locations impacted include...
Dansville, Letchworth State Park, Alfred, Belfast, Houghton,
Groveland, Caneadea, Nunda, Belmont, Angelica, Ossian, Canaseraga,
Almond, West Almond, Birdsall, Short Tract, Ossian Center, Swain,
Hunt and Rossburg.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 390 between exits 4 and 6.
 Interstate 86 between exits 30 and 33.

Torrential rainfall is occurring with this activity, and may cause 
localized flooding. Some locations will pick up one to two inches of 
rain in under an hours time. Do not drive your vehicle through 
flooded roadways.

LAT...LON 4224 7829 4252 7807 4252 7804 4254 7805
      4254 7806 4258 7803 4259 7801 4260 7802
      4262 7799 4271 7793 4271 7761 4258 7762
      4258 7766 4253 7766 4253 7772 4222 7774
TIME...MOT...LOC 2100Z 020DEG 13KT 4256 7784 
$$

RSH

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 1, 8:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFLivingston30 min
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

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.