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Winter Storm Watch 9, NWS Buffalo, NY

February 14, 2025Jefferson County, Lewis County, Oswego County, New York

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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2025-02-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2025-02-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -205 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156175Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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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The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 14, 11:00 AM ESTWinter Weather AdvisoryBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 8 more62 hr
Feb 14, 1:16 PM ESTGale WatchBUF44 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.