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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 26, 2022Ontario County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 26, 2022, 2:49 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 41 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
Aug 26, 2022, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2022, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
41 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Hail
0.50 in
Wind
40

County Ontario County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 106 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:50 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 295 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2022-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 28 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2022-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 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
28 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-215 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1054 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
29 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
106 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 12:16 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF59 min
Aug 26, 7:26 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF64 min
Aug 26, 8:30 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF45 min
Aug 26, 2:46 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFJefferson29 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.