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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 2, 2003Niagara County, Orleans County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2003, 2:45 PM EDT for Niagara County, Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 45 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
Aug 2, 2003, 2:45 PM EDT (18:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 2, 2003, 3:30 PM EDT
In force
45 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Niagara County, NY, Orleans County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 36 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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, 6.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2003-08-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 202 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°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 2003-08-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 10 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
202 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-67 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1122 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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.

268 
WUUS51 KBUF 021845
SVRBUF
NYC063-073-021930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
243 PM EDT SAT AUG 2 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NIAGARA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  ORLEANS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 239 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NEWFANE...OR ABOUT 6 MILES NORTH OF   
  LOCKPORT...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. A SECOND SEVERE THUNDERSTORM    
  WAS LOCATED NEAR MEDINA...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH. THESE STORMS 
  WILL PRODUCE TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS AND POSSIBLE WIND GUSTS UP 
  TO 60 MPH. 


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 4329 7883 4314 7866 4319 7823 4334 7836

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 2, 2:50 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF55 min
Aug 2, 4:47 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF58 min
Aug 2, 5:24 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF66 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.