Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 9, 2004, 4:00 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 9, 2004, 4:00 PM EDT (20:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 9, 2004, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:01 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 4:40 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | 3 E Olcott, NY | TREE BLOCKING RTE 18. PEA SIZED HAIL. |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 39 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
- 623 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -93 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 137 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 092000 SVRBUF NYC063-092100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 359 PM EDT WED JUN 9 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NIAGARA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 351 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES WEST OF YOUNGSTOWN...OR ABOUT 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF NIAGARA FALLS...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... YOUNGSTOWN AT 405 PM EDT... RANSOMVILLE AT 410 PM EDT... WILSON AT 420 PM EDT... OLCOTT AT 430 PM EDT... BARKER AT 440 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 4326 7848 4320 7895 4322 7905 4327 7901 ****ERROR: INCOMPLETE DATA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 12:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 34 min |
| Jun 9, 12:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 89 min | |
| Jun 9, 1:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 2 hr | |
| Jun 9, 3:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 76 min |
| Jun 9, 3:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 53 min | |
| Jun 9, 4:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 97 min | |
| Jun 9, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 83 min | |
| Jun 9, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis | 69 min |
| Jun 9, 5:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 66 min |
| Jun 9, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 55 min | |
| Jun 9, 5:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 63 min | |
| Jun 9, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 47 min | |
| Jun 9, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 53 min |
| Jun 9, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee | 56 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.