Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 63, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 2004, 3:32 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 10, 2004, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 10, 2004, 4:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cattaraugus County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 1:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 465 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -54 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 850 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 167 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.4
- Supercell composite
- 3.7
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 101932 SVRBUF NYC009-102015- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 332 PM EDT TUE AUG 10 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 415 PM EDT * AT 323 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTH OF SALAMANCA...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ALLEGANY AT 355 PM EDT... ST. BONAVENTURE AT 400 PM EDT... OLEAN AT 405 PM EDT... HINSDALE AT 410 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 4215 7882 4197 7877 4203 7836 4227 7838 $$ NIZIOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 10, 2:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 54 min |
| Aug 10, 5:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 35 min |
| Aug 10, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 117 min | |
| Aug 10, 6:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 117 min | |
| Aug 10, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga | 41 min |
| Aug 10, 7:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 57 min |
| Aug 10, 7:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 49 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.