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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 24, 2023Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Jul 24, 2023, 3:09 AM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 51 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 24, 2023, 3:09 AM EDT (07:09 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 2023, 4:00 AM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Hail: 0.25 in
Wind: 40

County Erie County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 00:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 254 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: 190 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2040 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 25 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this special weather statement went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Buffalo, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this special weather statement went out at Jul 24, 1:37 AM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 1:37 AM EDT, 1 hour 32 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jul 23, 12:28 PM EDT, 14 hours 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 24, 3:09 AM EDT, 0 minutes before

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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 24, 3:20 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		85 min
Jul 24, 11:34 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Niagara	41 min
Jul 24, 12:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Orleans	45 min
Jul 24, 12:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Orleans	34 min
Jul 24, 12:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		93 min
Jul 24, 1:21 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Monroe	39 min
Jul 24, 1:59 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Monroe	31 min
Jul 24, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		41 min
Jul 24, 2:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	55 min
Jul 24, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		61 min
Jul 24, 2:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Ontario, Wayne	58 min
Jul 24, 3:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Oswego, Wayne	56 min
Jul 24, 3:34 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Cattaraugus	41 min
Jul 24, 3:35 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	55 min
Jul 24, 3:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		23 min
Jul 24, 3:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	43 min
Jul 24, 4:29 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	46 min
Jul 24, 4:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	65 min
Jul 24, 5:36 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		84 min
Jul 24, 5:43 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Ontario	32 min
Jul 24, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Niagara	52 min
Jul 24, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	48 min
Jul 24, 6:15 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Ontario	60 min
Jul 24, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		57 min
Jul 24, 6:44 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie	46 min
Jul 24, 6:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie	32 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.