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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 8, 2021Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2021, 1:40 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 35 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 8, 2021, 1:40 PM EDT (17:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2021, 2:15 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Niagara County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 26 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:44 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, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 29 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: 99 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 725 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

693 
WWUS81 KBUF 081740
SPSBUF

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
140 PM EDT Thu Jul 8 2021

NYZ001-010-081815-
Niagara-Northern Erie-
140 PM EDT Thu Jul 8 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTH CENTRAL ERIE AND NIAGARA
COUNTIES...

At 139 PM EDT, a thunderstorm was located over Grand Island, moving 
northeast at 40 mph. This storm will produce torrential downpours 
that may result in ponding of water in poor drainage areas.

Locations impacted include...
Niagara Falls, North Tonawanda, Lockport, Tonawanda, Grand Island, 
Newfane, Lewiston, Sanborn, Wilson, Barker, Cambria Center, Olcott, 
Pendleton Center, Ransomville, and Appleton.

Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

LAT...LON 4311 7906 4312 7907 4314 7904 4320 7905
      4333 7896 4334 7891 4340 7842 4337 7846
      4336 7846 4294 7891 4296 7893 4296 7896
      4299 7901 4302 7902 4306 7900 4308 7908
TIME...MOT...LOC 1739Z 222DEG 35KT 4306 7897 
$$

Hitchcock

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 8:04 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	56 min
Jul 7, 8:39 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Allegany	3 hr
Jul 8, 12:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Niagara	27 min
Jul 8, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Orleans	42 min
Jul 8, 3:08 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Niagara	67 min
Jul 8, 3:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		37 min
Jul 8, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie	41 min
Jul 8, 3:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Niagara	48 min
Jul 8, 3:48 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		57 min
Jul 8, 4:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans	32 min
Jul 8, 4:16 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Oswego	44 min
Jul 8, 4:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego	49 min
Jul 8, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Monroe	61 min
Jul 8, 4:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		53 min
Jul 8, 4:45 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Genesee, Monroe	30 min
Jul 8, 4:53 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Monroe, Wayne	3 hr
Jul 8, 5:09 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	51 min
Jul 8, 5:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego	63 min
Jul 8, 6:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	60 min
Jul 8, 7:52 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	38 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.