Re: [STORMREPORTS] BUFFALO, NEW YORK HEAVY SNOW

From: Jesse Ferrell (CASI) (j{at}weatherwatchers.org)
Date: Tue Nov 21 2000 - 08:25:28 EST


Here is the official report:
http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/ny/public.html

                NOUS41 KBUF 210418 AMD
              PNSBUF

              PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...SNOWFALL TOTALS UPDATED
              NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
              1115 PM EST MON NOV 20 2000

              ...MAJOR LAKE EFFECT SNOWSTORM FOR THE BUFFALO
METROPOLITAN AREA...

              AN INTENSE LAKE EFFECT SNOW BAND SET UP ACROSS THE
NORTHERN HALF OF
              ERIE COUNTY AND NORTHERN GENESEE COUNTY BY LATE MORNING
AND PERSISTED
              INTO THE EVENING. THE LAKE EFFECT SNOW BAND INTENSIFIED
DURING THE
              AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING HOURS WHEN SNOW FELL AT A RATE
OF 3
              INCHES PER HOUR. WITHIN THE SNOW BAND...THUNDER AND
LIGHTNING WERE
              COMMON.

              AS OF 11 PM SOME OF THE AMOUNTS WERE...
              BUFFALO AIRPORT...24.9 INCHES
              WILLIAMSVILLE VILLAGE...22
              CLARENCE CENTER...20
              SOUTH BUFFALO...16
              DEPEW...22
              INDIAN FALLS GENESEE COUNTY...10
              WEST SENECA...8
              ELMA...7 TO 8
              ALDEN...7
              HAMBURG...6
              NORTH TONAWANDA...5.5

              THIS WAS THE THIRD GREATEST 24 HOUR SNOWFALL FOR BUFFALO
AND WITHIN A
              HALF AN INCH OF THE SECOND HIGHEST WHICH WAS 25.3 INCHES
SET JANUARY
              10-11 1982.

              EGR

Storm-Center{at}webtv.net wrote:
>
> >From there office at Buffalo International Airport, in Buffalo , New
> York. The N.W.S. is reporting in with Heavy Blowing Snow and Fog, and
> reporting 26 inches of accumulation of snow within the past 24 hours.

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