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Winter Storm Watch 8, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this winter storm watch at Dec 9, 2023, 2:24 PM EST for Jefferson County, Lewis County, Oswego County, New York. It took effect at Dec 10, 2023, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Dec 9, 2023, 2:24 PM EST (19:24 UTC)
- In effect from
- Dec 10, 2023, 7:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Dec 10, 2023, 3:37 AM EST
- In force
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
Counties Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Oswego County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:24 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 7.4 hours before the alert went out and 406 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 995 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 259 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 9, 3:33 AM EST | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 5 days |
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.