Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 11, 2003, 2:54 PM EDT for Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 51 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
- May 11, 2003, 2:54 PM EDT (18:54 UTC)
- Expired
- May 11, 2003, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 51 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Monroe County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:56 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 11:45 AM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 87 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
- 281 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -165 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 56 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
282 WUUS51 KBUF 111854 SVRBUF NYC055-111945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 253 PM EDT SUN MAY 11 2003 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONROE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 345 PM EDT * AT 251 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR GATES AND CHILI...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BRIGHTON AT 255 PM EDT ROCHESTER AND GREECE AT 300 PM EDT IRONDEQUOIT AT 305 PM EDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. A TORNADO WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. 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 4315 7785 4302 7768 4319 7739 4326 7761 $$ SFM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 11, 7:10 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 65 min | |
| May 11, 1:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 86 min | |
| May 11, 1:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee | 44 min |
| May 11, 2:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 49 min |
| May 11, 2:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 82 min | |
| May 11, 4:09 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 96 min | |
| May 11, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 59 min |
| May 11, 4:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 96 min | |
| May 11, 5:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 51 min |
| May 11, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 42 min |
| May 11, 5:39 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 96 min | |
| May 11, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 62 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.