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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Buffalo, NY

November 12, 2003Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 12, 2003, 7:18 PM EST for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 27 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: Nov 12, 2003, 7:18 PM EST (00:18 UTC)
Expired: Nov 12, 2003, 7:45 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Niagara County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 53 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:20 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, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 55 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: 158 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -35 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1117 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 90 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 273 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 339 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 130018
SVRBUF
NYC063-130045-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
718 PM EST WED NOV 12 2003

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 745 PM EST

* AT 710 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NEWFANE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF
  LOCKPORT...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

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 4333 7884 4319 7869 4354 7823 4369 7840

$$

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 12, 7:13 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	BUF		2 hr
Nov 12, 8:02 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	BUF		58 min
Nov 12, 8:59 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	BUF		31 min
Nov 12, 8:59 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	BUF		31 min
Nov 12, 9:08 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	BUF		97 min
Nov 12, 9:19 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	56 min
Nov 12, 9:40 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	50 min
Nov 12, 9:42 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee	48 min
Nov 12, 10:01 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe, Orleans	59 min
Nov 12, 10:12 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	BUF		63 min
Nov 12, 10:21 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston	24 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.