Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 14, 2004, 4:15 AM EDT for Erie County, Niagara 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
- Jul 14, 2004, 4:15 AM EDT (08:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 14, 2004, 5:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 60 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), 12 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:19 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 nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 15 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
- 142 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -105 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1433 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -6 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 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 140815 CCA SVRBUF NYC029-063-140915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 409 AM EDT WED JUL 14 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 515 AM EDT * AT 401 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES WEST OF LEWISTON TO SILVER CREEK...AND WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... SANBORN AT 415 AM EDT... ATHOL SPRINGS AT 420 AM EDT... LACKAWANNA AT 425 AM EDT... METRO BUFFALO AT 430 AM EDT... HAMBURG AT 430 AM EDT... THE STORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL...STRONG WINDS AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS THAT WILL LEAD TO POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. 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 4328 7913 4254 7897 4256 7856 4329 7855 $$ NIZIOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 2:46 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 119 min | |
| Jul 14, 2:52 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 113 min | |
| Jul 14, 2:52 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 113 min | |
| Jul 14, 6:04 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 86 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.