Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 3, 2003Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 30 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 3, 2003, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 2003, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 30 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 190 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: 249 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -82 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 935 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 59 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

624 
WUUS51 KBUF 032115
SVRBUF
NYC075-032145-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
515 PM EDT SUN AUG 3 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 510 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FULTON...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  FULTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  OSWEGO AT 520 PM EDT
  NINE MILE POINT AT 535 PM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS. HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE FLOODING.

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 4332 7659 4329 7627 4353 7624 4350 7652

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 4:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	56 min
Aug 3, 4:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		60 min
Aug 3, 4:48 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	2 hr
Aug 3, 5:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		56 min
Aug 3, 7:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		60 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.