Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 2004, 2:07 PM EDT for Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 53 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 29, 2004, 2:07 PM EDT (18:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2004, 3:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 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), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:09 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 82 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
- 1070 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -40 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 672 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 1.4
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 291807 SVRBUF NYC055-291900- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 207 PM EDT SUN AUG 29 2004 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONROE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 300 PM EDT * AT 200 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR SCOTTSVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES SOUTH OF GATES...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. THIS STORM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS. IN ADDITION TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS COULD PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HENRIETTA BY 215 PM EDT... BRIGHTON BY 220 PM EDT... EAST ROCHESTER BY 225 PM EDT... FAIRPORT BY 230 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 4308 7787 4293 7774 4310 7739 4328 7772 $$ NIZIOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 29, 2:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston | 27 min |
| Aug 29, 2:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Monroe | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 3:10 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Wayne | 3 hr |
| Aug 29, 5:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 34 min |
| Aug 29, 5:56 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 64 min | |
| Aug 29, 6:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario | 54 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.