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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 24, 2004Monroe County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2004, 1:08 AM EDT for Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 37 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, 1:08 AM EDT (05:08 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2004, 1:45 AM EDT
In force: 37 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), 86 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:11 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 84 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

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The text

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

477 
WUUS51 KBUF 240508
SVRBUF
NYC055-240545-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  MONROE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 145 AM EDT

* AT 106 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM HAMLIN BEACH TO CHURCHVILLE...AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  HENRIETTA AND GREECE AND GATES AT 120 AM EDT...
  ROCHESTER AND IRONDEQUOIT AND BRIGHTON AT 125 AM EDT...
  WEBSTER AT 135 AM EDT...

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS

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 4333 7773 4324 7757 4327 7738 4317 7738
          4303 7774 4302 7799 4311 7790 4316 7796
          4336 7796

$$

LEVAN

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, 12:03 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Niagara	57 min
May 24, 1:05 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Monroe, Wayne	3 hr
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.