Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 12, 2003, 10:01 PM EST for Monroe County, Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 59 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, 10:01 PM EST (03:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Nov 12, 2003, 11:00 PM EST
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Monroe County, NY, Orleans County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 107 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:05 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
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, 3.0 hours before the alert went out and 105 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 130301 SVRBUF NYC055-073-130400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1000 PM EST WED NOV 12 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONROE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK ORLEANS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 1100 PM EST * AT 955 PM EST...LAW ENFORCEMENT REPORTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM HOLLEY TO 19 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HOLLEY... OR FROM 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ALBION TO 2 MILES SOUTH OF BATAVIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... BROCKPORT AT 1005 PM EST HILTON AT 1015 PM EST HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS. AT 956 PM...THE GENESEE COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED THREE QUARTER INCH HAIL JUST WEST OF BATAVIA. 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 4325 7807 4313 7800 4350 7697 4388 7677 $$ DJF
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, 9:42 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee | 48 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
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.