Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2003, 2:16 PM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 29 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, 2:16 PM EDT (18:16 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2003, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 29 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Allegany County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 120 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 1:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 116 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 161816 SVRBUF NYC003-161845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 216 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ALLEGANY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 211 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER WELLSVILLE...OR ABOUT 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF WELLSVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WHITESVILLE AT 235 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4229 7790 4215 7804 4188 7761 4206 7743 $$
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, 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, 2:18 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.