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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 8, 2003Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 8, 2003, 6:50 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 40 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
Jun 8, 2003, 6:50 PM EDT (22:50 UTC)
Expired
Jun 8, 2003, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chautauqua County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:50 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 nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 12:00Z on 2003-06-08Temperature 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°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2003-06-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -1 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
717 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-1 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
35 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.

429 
WUUS51 KBUF 082250
SVRBUF
NYC013-082330-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
649 PM EDT SUN JUN 8 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 650 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NNEAR FINDLEY LAKE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40  
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WESTFIELD AND CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTE AT 705 PM EDT
  MAYVILLE AT 710 PM EDT

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 4211 7996 4198 7979 4222 7942 4238 7963

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 8, 5:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF84 min
Jun 8, 5:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF84 min
Jun 8, 5:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF24 min
Jun 8, 5:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF24 min
Jun 8, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF75 min
Jun 8, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF75 min
Jun 8, 6:00 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF75 min
Jun 8, 6:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF90 min
Jun 8, 6:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF90 min
Jun 8, 7:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua31 min
Jun 8, 7:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF36 min
Jun 8, 7:54 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF36 min
Jun 8, 7:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie31 min

Nearby

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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.