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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 11, 2003Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2003, 5:33 PM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 42 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: May 11, 2003, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired: May 11, 2003, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 42 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Oswego County, NY

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
May 11, 1:50 PM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 203 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 888 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 145 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 190 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.

797 
WUUS51 KBUF 112133
SVRBUF
NYC075-112215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
531 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OSWEGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT

* AT 530 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR             
  INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM            
  PULASKI TO HASTINGS...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  REDFIELD AND WILLIAMSTOWN AT 545 PM EDT

A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR
CENTRAL NEW YORK.

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

LAT...LON 4356 7623 4344 7605 4354 7578 4368 7590

$$

SFM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 11, 7:10 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		65 min
May 11, 1:34 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		86 min
May 11, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee	44 min
May 11, 2:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Orleans	49 min
May 11, 2:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		82 min
May 11, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	51 min
May 11, 4:09 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		96 min
May 11, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	59 min
May 11, 4:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		96 min
May 11, 5:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	51 min
May 11, 5:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		96 min
May 11, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	62 min

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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.