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Special Weather Statement, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 25, 2023Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this special weather statement at Aug 25, 2023, 6:04 AM EDT for Oswego 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 25, 2023, 6:04 AM EDT (10:04 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2023, 6:45 AM EDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

County Oswego County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:03 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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 202 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: 542 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -194 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 708 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 16 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.8

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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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 24, 10:24 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		96 min
Aug 24, 11:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	53 min
Aug 25, 12:14 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus	46 min
Aug 25, 4:39 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BUF	Monroe, Ontario	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.