Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 7, 2004, 3:44 AM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 31 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 7, 2004, 3:44 AM EDT (07:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 7, 2004, 4:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 112 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:44 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 6, 11:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 7.7 hours before the alert went out and 112 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.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 070744 SVRBUF NYC013-070815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 342 AM EDT FRI MAY 7 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 415 AM EDT * AT 339 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF FINDLEY LAKE MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FINDLEY LAKE AT 355 AM EDT... SHERMAN AT 400 AM EDT... BEMUS POINT AT 410 AM EDT... LAKEWOOD AT 415 AM EDT... 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 4235 8005 4215 8010 4199 7911 4225 7907 $$ WCH
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, 10:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus | 65 min |
| May 6, 11:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 37 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.