Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 72, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 29, 2004, 6:06 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 54 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, 6:06 PM EDT (22:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 29, 2004, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 54 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Ontario County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 106 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 292206
SVRBUF
NYC069-292300-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
606 PM EDT SUN AUG 29 2004
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ONTARIO COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
* UNTIL 700 PM EDT
* AT 600 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES WEST OF
HONEOYE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES EAST OF GENESEO...AND WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
BRISTOL BY 615 PM EDT...
CANANDAIGUA BY 625 PM EDT...
SHORTSVILLE BY 630 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 4292 7754 4273 7754 4282 7733 4286 7710
4302 7732
$$
NIZIOLThe 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, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 53 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 |
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.