Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 41, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2003, 11:44 AM EDT for Chautauqua County, Erie County, New York. It was in force for 61 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, 11:44 AM EDT (15:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2003, 12:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:47 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, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 48 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.
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KBUF 161544
SVRBUF
NYC013-029-161645-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1142 AM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
* UNTIL 1245 PM EDT
* AT 1137 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF LAKE ERIE BEACH...OR ABOUT
17 MILES NORTHEAST OF DUNKIRK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
SILVER CREEK AND EDEN AT NOON EDT
NORTH COLLINS AT 1205 PM EDT
IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY
LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
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 4285 7917 4275 7940 4221 7927 4255 7906
4265 7876
$$
DJFThe 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, 9:37 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 53 min |
| Aug 16, 11:15 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 60 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
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.