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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 26, 2003Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 26, 2003, 8:10 AM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 35 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, 8:10 AM EDT (12:10 UTC)
Expired
Aug 26, 2003, 8:45 AM EDT
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Erie County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 38 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:13 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, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 36 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 12:00Z on 2003-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 22 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 12:00Z on 2003-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 80 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
22 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-95 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
843 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
80 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
183 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 261210
SVRBUF
NYC029-261245-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 845 AM EDT

* AT 758 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM COLDEN TO LAKE ERIE            
  BEACH...ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST  
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CROSS THE SOUTHERN EDGE OF THE       
  COUNTY BETWEEN 810 AND 830 PM.

THESE STORMS WILL PRODUCE FREQUESNT LIGHTNING DAMAGING WINDS AND 
POSSIBLE HAIL.

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 4273 7855 4260 7923 4257 7903 4248 7887
          4256 7848

$$

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, 6:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua44 min
Aug 26, 7:37 AM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF38 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.