Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 26, 2001Livingston County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2001, 5:18 PM EDT for Livingston County, New York. It was in force for 57 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Aug 26, 2001, 5:18 PM EDT (21:18 UTC)
Expired: Aug 26, 2001, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Livingston County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 26, 5:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 50 E	Springwater, NY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -166 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1105 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 230 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 210 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

566 
WUUS51 KBUF 262119
SVRBUF
NYC051-262215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
518 PM EDT SUN AUG 26 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 510 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES WEST OF MOUNT MORRIS...OR ABOUT 16
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF GENESEO...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE HEMLOCK...GROVELAND AND
  CONESUS

SAGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 26, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wyoming	30 min
Aug 26, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2001 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.