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Winter Storm Watch 9, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this winter storm watch at Feb 14, 2025, 4:03 AM EST for Jefferson County, Lewis County, Oswego County, New York. It took effect at Feb 15, 2025, 1:00 PM EST. It was in force for .
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 14, 2025, 4:03 AM EST (09:03 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 15, 2025, 1:00 PM EST
- Expired
- Feb 15, 2025, 4:03 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 09:06 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 9.1 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
- 921 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 110 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -205 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -242 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this winter storm watch 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 watch went out at Feb 14, 12:42 AM EST, 3 hours 21 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Feb 14, 12:42 AM EST, 3 hours 21 minutes before
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</html>The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 11:00 AM EST | Winter Weather Advisory | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 8 more | 62 hr |
| Feb 14, 1:16 PM EST | Gale Watch | BUF | 44 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.