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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 15, 2021, 8:06 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 24 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 15, 2021, 8:06 PM EDT (00:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2021, 8:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
County Erie County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 7 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.1 hours before the alert went out and 4 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 572 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1363 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 227 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted.
282 WWUS81 KBUF 160006 SPSBUF Special Weather Statement National Weather Service Buffalo NY 806 PM EDT Thu Jul 15 2021 NYZ010>012-160030- Wyoming-Genesee-Northern Erie- 806 PM EDT Thu Jul 15 2021 ...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL AFFECT NORTHWESTERN WYOMING... NORTHEASTERN ERIE AND SOUTHWESTERN GENESEE COUNTIES... At 806 PM EDT, a strong thunderstorm was located over West Seneca, moving east at 30 mph. Winds in excess of 40 mph are possible with this storm. Locations impacted include... Buffalo, Cheektowaga, West Seneca, Clarence, Lackawanna, Depew, Lancaster, Williamsville, Darien Lakes State Park, Elma, Marilla, Pembroke, Bennington, Akron, Small Boat Harbor, Erie Basin Marina, Alden, Blasdell, Elma Center and Billington Heights. This includes Interstate 90 between exits 55 and 48A. LAT...LON 4293 7891 4304 7839 4278 7832 4280 7887 TIME...MOT...LOC 0006Z 259DEG 27KT 4286 7880 $$ Mitchell
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 8:12 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Chautauqua | 63 min |
| Jul 15, 8:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 57 min |
| Jul 15, 9:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Cattaraugus | 54 min |
| Jul 15, 10:48 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 57 min | |
| Jul 15, 11:09 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Jefferson | 36 min |
| Jul 16, 2:13 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 5 hr |
| Jul 16, 2:41 PM EDT | Flash Flood Watch | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 8 more | 32 hr |
| Jul 16, 2:59 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 4 hr |
| Jul 16, 4:45 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 44 hr | |
| Jul 16, 4:49 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 6 hr |
| Jul 16, 7:14 PM EDT | Areal Flood Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 6 hr |
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.