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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 14, 2021Ontario County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 14, 2021, 5:03 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 57 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 14, 2021, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
Expired
Jul 14, 2021, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY

County Ontario County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 107 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 archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 104 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 2021-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 499 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 2021-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 34 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
499 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-9 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
622 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.9

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The text

As transmitted.

655 
WWUS81 KBUF 142103
SPSBUF

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
503 PM EDT Wed Jul 14 2021

NYZ003-004-014-142200-
Ontario-Wayne-Monroe-
503 PM EDT Wed Jul 14 2021

...AN AREA OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WILL AFFECT SOUTHWESTERN WAYNE...
SOUTHEASTERN MONROE AND NORTHERN ONTARIO COUNTIES...

At 501 PM EDT, an are of strong thunderstorms were clustered over 
Brighton and moving east at 15 mph.

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

Locations impacted include...
Rochester, Irondequoit, Canandaigua, East Rochester, Webster,
Fairport, Brighton, Ontario, Henrietta, Penfield, Newark, Williamson,
Marion, Palmyra, Victor, Honeoye Falls, Clifton Springs, Farmington,
Walworth and Mendon.

This includes the following highways...
 Interstate 390 near exit 12.
 Interstate 90 between exits 45 and 43.

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

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

Frequent cloud to ground lightning is occurring with this storm.
Lightning can strike 10 miles away from a thunderstorm. Seek a safe
shelter inside a building or vehicle.


LAT...LON 4298 7765 4320 7765 4327 7711 4287 7709
TIME...MOT...LOC 2101Z 272DEG 14KT 4311 7758 
$$

Reynolds

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 8:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF45 min
Jul 13, 8:04 PM EDTAreal Flood WarningBUFMonroe3 hr
Jul 13, 8:04 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFJefferson41 min
Jul 13, 8:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFOntario, Wayne44 min
Jul 13, 8:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF2 hr
Jul 13, 8:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga, Oswego, Wayne55 min
Jul 13, 9:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga, Wayne27 min
Jul 13, 9:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego65 min
Jul 13, 9:38 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF82 min
Jul 13, 10:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFJefferson, Lewis, Oswego73 min
Jul 14, 4:07 AM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFCattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie3 hr
Jul 14, 5:45 AM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFWyoming60 min
Jul 14, 7:15 AM EDTAreal Flood WarningBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Wyoming3 hr
Jul 14, 2:16 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFNiagara59 min
Jul 14, 3:26 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFGenesee49 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.