Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 24, 2004Erie County, Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2004, 12:03 AM EDT for Erie County, Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 57 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 24, 2004, 12:03 AM EDT (04:03 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2004, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Erie County, NY, Niagara County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:06 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 13 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 234 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -161 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 812 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 55 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 300 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 368 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 240403
SVRBUF
NYC029-063-240500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1204 AM EDT MON MAY 24 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  NIAGARA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 100 AM EDT

* AT 1201 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR BUFFALO...AND WAS
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CHEEKTOWAGA AT 1210 AM EDT...
  HARRIS HILL AT 1215 AM EDT...
  CLARENCE CENTER AT 1220 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 4308 7912 4269 7895 4271 7850 4324 7856

$$

TJP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 23, 11:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		88 min
May 23, 11:02 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		88 min
May 23, 11:10 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Oswego	3 hr
May 24, 1:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Monroe, Wayne	3 hr
May 24, 1:08 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	37 min
May 24, 1:14 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	3 hr
May 24, 5:32 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	3 hr
May 24, 5:45 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		60 min
May 24, 6:21 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		54 min
May 24, 6:21 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		54 min
May 24, 6:21 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		54 min
May 24, 6:21 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		54 min
May 24, 6:21 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		54 min
May 24, 7:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee	47 min
May 24, 7:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	47 min
May 24, 7:46 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		89 min
May 24, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	42 min
May 24, 3:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2004 Every 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.