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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

December 8, 2021Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Dec 8, 2021, 1:20 PM EST for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 85 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: Dec 8, 2021, 1:20 PM EST (18:20 UTC)
Expired: Dec 8, 2021, 2:45 PM EST
In force: 85 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Erie County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 8 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:23 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 11 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: 587 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 70 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 1 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

710 
WWUS81 KBUF 081820
SPSBUF

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Buffalo NY
120 PM EST Wed Dec 8 2021

NYZ010-081945-
Northern Erie-
120 PM EST Wed Dec 8 2021

...A BAND OF HEAVY SNOW WILL AFFECT NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY...

At 117 PM EST, a band of heavy snow was located just south of Grand 
Island and was poised to move into northern Erie County in the next 
half of an hour.

Locations impacted include...
Buffalo, Cheektowaga, North Tonawanda, Clarence, Kenmore, Amherst,
Tonawanda, Williamsville, Grand Island, Akron, Erie Basin Marina,
Clarence Center, East Amherst and Rapids.

This includes Interstate 90 between exits 51 and 49.
 
The snow may accumulate at a rate of up to one half of an inch per 
hour or more in this band of heavy snow. Be prepared for 
deteriorating driving conditions and visiblities to drop to one 
quarter to one half of a mile at times. Consider delaying travel if 
you will be going through this band of heavy snow.


LAT...LON 4302 7888 4302 7884 4304 7883 4307 7874
      4309 7872 4308 7865 4310 7864 4307 7859
      4310 7856 4309 7852 4310 7851 4308 7847
      4301 7847 4286 7892 4291 7890 4293 7891
      4296 7893 4296 7896 4298 7899
TIME...MOT...LOC 1817Z 246DEG 23KT 4294 7887 

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Fries

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 7, 7:14 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie	91 min
Dec 8, 3:29 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BUF	Oswego	24 hr
Dec 8, 12:39 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BUF		21 hr
Dec 8, 2:38 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie	82 min
Dec 8, 3:59 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua, Erie	61 min
Dec 8, 4:59 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	61 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.