Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 6, 2004, 10:55 PM EDT for Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 65 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 6, 2004, 10:55 PM EDT (02:55 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2004, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 65 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:55 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, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 100 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
- 25 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -245 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1823 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 228 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 237 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
608 WUUS51 KBUF 070255 SVRBUF NYC003-009-070400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1055 PM EDT THU MAY 6 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ALLEGANY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT * AT 1050 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF HINSDALE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF OLEAN...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HINSDALE AT 1100 PM EDT... CUBA AT 1105 PM EDT... RICHBURG AT 1115 PM EDT... SCIO AT 1125 PM EDT... STANNARDS AT 1130 PM EDT... WHITESVILLE AT 1145 PM EDT... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. 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 4229 7855 4212 7860 4188 7746 4214 7737 $$ LEVAN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 6, 10:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 28 min | |
| May 6, 11:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 37 min |
| May 7, 3:44 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 31 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2004Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2004
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.