Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 12, 2003, 9:42 PM EST for Genesee County, New York. It was in force for 48 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, 9:42 PM EST (02:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2003, 10:30 PM EST
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Genesee County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 39 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12, 7:20 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 37 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 130242 SVRBUF NYC037-130330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 941 PM EST WED NOV 12 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GENESEE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 1030 PM EST * AT 935 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN ERIE COUNTY FROM ALDEN TO AKRON...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... OAKFIELD AT 950 PM EST BATAVIA AT 955 PM EST BYRON AND LE ROY AT 1005 PM EST BERGEN AT 1010 PM EST THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. 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 1100 PM EST WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4312 7849 4289 7847 4291 7797 4312 7794 $$
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, 7:18 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 27 min |
| 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, 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.