Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 26, 2003Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2003, 6:16 AM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 44 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 26, 2003, 6:16 AM EDT (10:16 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2003, 7:00 AM EDT
In force
44 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chautauqua County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:17 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 00:00Z, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 102 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2003-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1132 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2003-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 7 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
1132 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-10 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
7 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
-0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 261016
SVRBUF
NYC013-261100-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
615 AM EDT TUE AUG 26 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 AM EDT

* AT 615 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF CHAUTAUQUA
  INSTITUTE TO 5 MILES WEST OF MAYVILLE...OR FROM 15 MILES SOUTH OF
  FREDONIA TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FREDONIA...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTE AT 620 AM EDT
  FALCONER AND LAKEWOOD AT 650 AM EDT
  JAMESTOWN WEST AND JAMESTOWN AT 655 AM EDT
  FREWSBURG AT 700 AM EDT

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 4224 7967 4203 7969 4203 7906 4241 7909

$$

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 26, 5:39 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF36 min
Aug 26, 7:37 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF38 min
Aug 26, 8:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie35 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.