Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 14, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 60 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
- Jun 14, 2004, 7:45 PM EDT (23:45 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 14, 2004, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Erie County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 11 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 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 142345 SVRBUF NYC029-150045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 743 PM EDT MON JUN 14 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 735 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A CLUSTER OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF GRAND ISLAND TO HAMBURG...AND WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... METRO BUFFALO AT 755 PM... WILLIAMSVILLE AND ELMA AND EAST AURORA AT 755 PM EDT... AMHERST AND LANCASTER AT 800 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 4305 7905 4257 7889 4262 7855 4305 7854 $$ NIZIOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 6:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 95 min | |
| Jun 14, 6:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 95 min | |
| Jun 14, 6:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 94 min | |
| Jun 14, 7:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.