Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 28, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2004, 10:11 PM EDT for Genesee County, Livingston County, Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 49 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 22, 2004, 10:11 PM EDT (02:11 UTC)
- Expired
- May 22, 2004, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Genesee County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Monroe County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:14 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 5:45 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 1116 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -27 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 216 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 238 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.1
- Supercell composite
- 3.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
148 WUUS51 KBUF 230211 SVRBUF NYC037-051-055-230300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1011 PM EDT SAT MAY 22 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GENESEE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK MONROE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 1100 PM EDT * AT 1009 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 7 MILES WEST OF CHURCHVILLE TO 11 MILES SOUTHWEST OF LE ROY...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BROCKPORT TO 9 MILES SOUTH OF BATAVIA...AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... LE ROY AT 1020 PM EDT... CHURCHVILLE AT 1025 PM EDT... CALEDONIA AT 1035 PM EDT... YORK AT 1040 PM EDT... SCOTTSVILLE AT 1045 PM EDT... AVON AT 1055 PM 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 4315 7793 4288 7804 4284 7761 4311 7742 $$ TMA/PO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 22, 8:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario | 60 min |
| May 22, 10:02 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 4 hr |
| May 23, 12:20 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus | 4 hr |
| May 23, 5:53 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 2 hr |
| May 23, 6:26 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Chautauqua, Erie | 3 hr |
| May 23, 2:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 44 min |
| May 23, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 65 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.