Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 24, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 24, 2003Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 24, 2003, 10:33 AM EDT for Oswego 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: Jul 24, 2003, 10:33 AM EDT (14:33 UTC)
Expired: Jul 24, 2003, 11:00 AM EDT
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Oswego County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 2.6 hours before the alert went out and 214 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: 103 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -30 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 699 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 9 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -26 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 68 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.

934 
WUUS51 KBUF 241433
SVRBUF
NYC075-241500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1033 AM EDT THU JUL 24 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1100 AM EDT

* AT 1025 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTH OF SELKIRK BEACH...OR ABOUT 13
  MILES EAST OF OSWEGO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SELKIRK BEACH AT 1035 AM EDT
  PULASKI AT 1040 AM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

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 4351 7641 4338 7623 4362 7585 4368 7608

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 8:01 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		29 min
Jul 24, 11:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	60 min
Jul 24, 11:05 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		115 min
Jul 24, 12:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	51 min
Jul 24, 2:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		75 min
Jul 24, 3:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		50 min
Jul 24, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		60 min
Jul 24, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	56 min
Jul 24, 5:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	50 min
Jul 24, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	45 min
Jul 24, 6:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	29 min
Jul 24, 6:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Orleans	51 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2003 Every 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.