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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 5, 2003Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2003, 12:56 PM EDT for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 34 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, 12:56 PM EDT (16:56 UTC)
Expired: Aug 5, 2003, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 45 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:55 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 42 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

779 
WUUS51 KBUF 051656
SVRBUF
NYC121-051730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1255 PM EDT TUE AUG 5 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT

* AT 1245 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WARSAW...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE THROUGH THE NORTHEAST PORTION OF 
  THE COUNTY THROUGH 115 PM.

DAMAGING WINDS FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL ARE LIKELY 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 4280 7833 4268 7816 4286 7797 4286 7831

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 5, 12:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	36 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

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.