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Winter Storm Warning 2, NWS Buffalo, NY

January 28, 2025Jefferson County, Lewis County, Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this winter storm warning at Jan 28, 2025, 9:59 AM EST for Jefferson County, Lewis County, Oswego County, New York. It took effect at Jan 28, 2025, 7:00 PM EST. It was in force for 30 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jan 28, 2025, 9:59 AM EST (14:59 UTC)
In effect from: Jan 28, 2025, 7:00 PM EST
Expired: Jan 30, 2025, 1:00 AM EST
In force: 30 hr
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY

Counties Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Oswego County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 3.0 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.

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: 1977 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 98 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter storm warning 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 winter storm warning went out at Jan 27, 6:32 PM EST, 15 hours 27 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 27, 6:32 PM EST, 15 hours 27 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Jan 27, 2:36 PM EST, 19 hours 23 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
Jan 27, 10:36 PM EST	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans and 1 more	84 min
Jan 28, 3:53 AM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BUF		51 hr
Jan 28, 5:00 AM EST	Winter Storm Watch	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego	5 hr
Jan 28, 5:00 AM EST	Winter Weather Advisory	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 7 more	44 hr
Jan 28, 12:45 PM EST	Small Craft Advisory	BUF		33 hr
Jan 28, 6:39 PM EST	Gale Warning	BUF		27 hr

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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.