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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 16, 2003Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2003, 9:37 AM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 53 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 16, 2003, 9:37 AM EDT (13:37 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2003, 10:30 AM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Niagara County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 42 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:41 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, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 1388 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -20 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 794 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 1.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 161337
SVRBUF
NYC063-161430-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
936 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1030 AM EDT

* AT 935 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 21 MILES NORTHWEST OF   
  LOCKPORT TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF TORONTO...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  NEWFANE AND YOUNGSTOWN AT 1000 AM EDT
  LEWISTON AT 1010 AM EDT
  LOCKPORT AT 1020 AM EDT
  SANBORN AT 1025 AM EDT

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORMS HAVE PASSED.

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 4347 7886 4344 7952 4304 7890 4310 7845

$$

DJF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 16, 9:06 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		69 min
Aug 16, 9:30 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		90 min
Aug 16, 11:15 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		60 min
Aug 16, 11:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua, Erie	61 min
Aug 16, 12:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wyoming	64 min
Aug 16, 1:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Wyoming	118 min
Aug 16, 1:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		95 min
Aug 16, 1:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario	51 min
Aug 16, 2:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany	29 min
Aug 16, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	57 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.