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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 76, NWS Buffalo, NY

September 3, 2002Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2002, 2:18 PM EDT for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 27 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Sep 3, 2002, 2:18 PM EDT (18:18 UTC)
Expired: Sep 3, 2002, 2:45 PM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:19 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 3, 12:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 37 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: 574 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -89 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1161 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 169 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 177 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 4.6

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The text

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

091 
WUUS51 KBUF 031818
SVRBUF
NYC121-031845-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
218 PM EDT TUE SEP 3 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 245 PM EDT

* AT 215 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BENNINGTON...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  EAST AURORA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  VARYSBURG AT 220 PM EDT
  ATTICA AT 225 PM EDT

VERY LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN BUFFALO.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4288 7846 4275 7845 4274 7797 4287 7798

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 3, 12:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		26 min
Sep 3, 12:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Niagara	26 min
Sep 3, 12:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Niagara	24 min
Sep 3, 12:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		62 min
Sep 3, 12:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		62 min
Sep 3, 2:54 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		51 min
Sep 3, 3:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Wyoming	67 min
Sep 3, 3:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus	64 min
Sep 3, 3:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		52 min
Sep 3, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario	26 min
Sep 3, 4:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	64 min
Sep 3, 4:52 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		38 min
Sep 3, 5:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	58 min
Sep 3, 6:33 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.