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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 8, 2021Orleans County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2021, 2:18 PM EDT for Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 42 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, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2021, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Orleans County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 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, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 45 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.

245 
WWUS81 KBUF 081818
SPSBUF

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

NYZ001-002-081900-
Orleans-Niagara-
218 PM EDT Thu Jul 8 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHEASTERN NIAGARA AND ORLEANS
COUNTIES...

At 217 PM EDT, a thunderstorm was located near Middleport, moving 
northeast at 35 mph. This storm will produce torrential downpours 
that may result in ponding of water in poor drainage areas.

Locations impacted include...
Lockport, Medina, Albion, Middleport, Waterport, Point Breeze, Kent, 
Ridgeway, Shelby, Gaines, Kendall, Lyndonville, Fancher, Gasport, 
Knowlesville, and Wolcottsville.

LAT...LON 4342 7842 4342 7808 4334 7799 4324 7806
      4313 7841 4313 7846 4311 7846 4310 7848
      4313 7880
TIME...MOT...LOC 1817Z 228DEG 31KT 4326 7846 
$$

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, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Niagara	35 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.