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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 24, 2004Genesee County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2004, 7:13 AM EDT for Genesee County, New York. It was in force for 47 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, 7:13 AM EDT (11:13 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2004, 8:00 AM EDT
In force: 47 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Genesee County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:16 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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 41 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.

189 
WUUS51 KBUF 241113
SVRBUF
NYC037-241200-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 800 AM EDT

* AT 711 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 OAKFIELD TO DARIEN...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF MEDINA TO 10 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BATAVIA...AND WERE
  MOVING EAST AT 55 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  LE ROY AT 730 AM EDT...

IN ADDITION TO DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING 
IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. 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 4313 7837 4289 7839 4292 7799 4313 7795

$$

DJF

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, 1:08 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, 7:43 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.