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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 8, 2021Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 8, 2021, 4:16 PM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 44 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, 4:16 PM EDT (20:16 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 2021, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Oswego County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:18 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 204 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: 578 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

464 
WWUS81 KBUF 082016
SPSBUF

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

NYZ005-006-082100-
Oswego-Northern Cayuga-
416 PM EDT Thu Jul 8 2021

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT CAYUGA AND OSWEGO COUNTIES...

At 416 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over Lysander, or
near Fulton, moving northeast at 40 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Oswego, Fulton, Sandy Island Beach State Park, Lysander, Pulaski,
Central Square, Selkirk Shores State Park, Mexico Point State Park,
Nine Mile Point, Battle Island State Park, Hastings, Scriba, Volney,
Richland, Constantia, West Monroe, Palermo, New Haven, Phoenix and
Minetto.

This includes Interstate 81 between exits 32 and 36.
 
Torrential rainfall is also occurring with this storm, and may cause
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

LAT...LON 4348 7581 4333 7589 4322 7609 4327 7620
      4322 7619 4320 7621 4324 7627 4321 7626
      4320 7628 4323 7631 4323 7646 4319 7648
      4329 7665 4357 7641 4357 7628 4372 7627
      4349 7575 4347 7576
TIME...MOT...LOC 2016Z 220DEG 36KT 4326 7648 
$$

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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, 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, 4:26 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.