Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Buffalo, NY
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.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 84 min | |
| Jun 8, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 84 min | |
| Jun 8, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 24 min | |
| Jun 8, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 24 min | |
| Jun 8, 6:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 75 min | |
| Jun 8, 6:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 75 min | |
| Jun 8, 6:00 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 75 min | |
| Jun 8, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 90 min | |
| Jun 8, 6:30 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 90 min | |
| Jun 8, 7:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 31 min |
| Jun 8, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 36 min | |
| Jun 8, 7:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 36 min | |
| Jun 8, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2003Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2003
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.