Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 20, 2004Monroe County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 20, 2004, 2:37 PM EDT for Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 68 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 20, 2004, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
Expired
Jul 20, 2004, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
68 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), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:40 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 12:00Z, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 100 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-07-20Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 145 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2004-07-20The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 112 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
145 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-47 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1084 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
17 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
112 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
124 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 201837
SVRBUF
NYC055-201945-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
238 PM EDT TUE JUL 20 2004

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 228 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR EAST ROCHESTER...
  AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FAIRPORT AT 245 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 4313 7738 4305 7738 4305 7748 4304 7749
      4297 7749 4299 7756 4302 7764 4318 7754

$$

TJP

The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 20, 12:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOrleans63 min
Jul 20, 1:30 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF2 hr
Jul 20, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFNiagara56 min
Jul 20, 4:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFNiagara60 min
Jul 20, 4:52 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFNiagara113 min

Nearby

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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.