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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 5, 2003Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2003, 12:24 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 36 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 5, 2003, 12:24 PM EDT (16:24 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2003, 1:00 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Erie County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 19 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:25 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, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 16 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: 268 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -42 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1016 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 13 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.

906 
WUUS51 KBUF 051624
SVRBUF
NYC029-051700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1222 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 100 PM EDT

* AT 1215 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF EAST AURORA...MOVING NORTH AT 
  15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WALES CENTER AT 1225 PM EDT
  EAST AURORA AT 1230 PM EDT
  ELMA LANCASTER AND MARILLA AT 1245 PM EDT

DAMAGING WINDS FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS 
STORM. 
    
HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD LOW LYING AREAS SUCH AS DITCHES AND
UNDERPASSES. AVOID THESE AREAS AND DO NOT CROSS FLOODED ROADS AS THEY
MAY BE WASHED OUT. WATER LEVELS OF SMALL STREAMS AND RIVERS MAY ALSO
RISE...THEREFORE SEEK HIGHER GROUND IF THREATENED BY FLOOD WATERS.

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 4263 7867 4266 7849 4306 7850 4301 7883

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 12:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wyoming	34 min
Aug 5, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		50 min
Aug 5, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		50 min
Aug 5, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		50 min
Aug 5, 1:55 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		50 min
Aug 5, 3:38 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Ontario	112 min
Aug 5, 3:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Allegany	2 hr
Aug 5, 4:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Monroe, Wayne	53 min
Aug 5, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	52 min
Aug 5, 4:34 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Wyoming	26 min
Aug 5, 4:54 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Lewis, Oswego	2 hr
Aug 5, 4:59 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Wyoming	31 min
Aug 5, 5:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	55 min
Aug 5, 5:06 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Wayne	54 min
Aug 5, 5:19 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Allegany	56 min
Aug 5, 5:24 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Wyoming	36 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.