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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 16, 2003Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2003, 12:26 PM EDT for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 64 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, 12:26 PM EDT (16:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2003, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 64 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), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:26 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 44 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 161626
SVRBUF
NYC121-161730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1226 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 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 1221 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ATTICA...OR ABOUT 11 MILES SOUTH OF
  BATAVIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WARSAW AT 1235 PM EDT

LARGE HAIL IS POSSIBLE WITH THIS SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. IF YOU ARE IN 
THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A 
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER.

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 4291 7819 4282 7837 4257 7830 4267 7799

$$

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, 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, 11:44 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua, Erie	61 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.