Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 28, 2001Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 2001, 7:46 AM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 59 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 2001, 7:46 AM EDT (11:46 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 2001, 8:45 AM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Chautauqua County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 91 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2001-08-28Temperature 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2001-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -34 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1618 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
17 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

988 
WUUS51 KBUF 281150
SVRBUF
NYC013-281245-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
746 AM EDT TUE AUG 28 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 845 AM EDT

* AT 742 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER LAKE ERIE ABOUT 5 MILES WEST   
  OF THE SHORELINE BETWEEN WESTFIELD AND SILVER CREEK...MOVING EAST  
  AT 35 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  FREDONIA AND DUNKIRK BY 8:00AM
  ARKWRIGHT BETWEEN 8:15 AND 8:30AM  

THESE STORMS COULD PRODUCE FREQUENT LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS AND 
HAIL. PERSONS IN THIS AREA SHOULD TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

NIZIOL

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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.