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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 730

August 10, 20044 states

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 10, 2004, 1:10 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Aug 10, 2004, 1:10 PM EDT (17:10 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 2004, 8:00 PM EDT
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 64 counties

Allegany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Madison County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Wayne County, NY, Wyoming County, NY, Yates County, NY, Ashtabula County, OH, Columbiana County, OH, Jefferson County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Allegheny County, PA, Armstrong County, PA, Beaver County, PA, Bradford County, PA, Butler County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Centre County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Clearfield County, PA, Clinton County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Elk County, PA, Erie County, PA, Forest County, PA, Indiana County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, Lycoming County, PA, McKean County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Potter County, PA, Sullivan County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Venango County, PA, Warren County, PA, Washington County, PA, Westmoreland County, PA, Wyoming County, PA, Brooke County, WV, Hancock County, WV, Ohio County, WV

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 105 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:11 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.

Warnings issued inside it

23 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 1:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLETrumbull60 min
Aug 10, 2:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZVenango51 min
Aug 10, 2:36 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus54 min
Aug 10, 2:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPWarren62 min
Aug 10, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZBeaver60 min
Aug 10, 3:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus43 min
Aug 10, 3:44 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZButler61 min
Aug 10, 3:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPMcKean65 min
Aug 10, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMMadison64 min
Aug 10, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSteuben36 min
Aug 10, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWestmoreland51 min
Aug 10, 5:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany35 min
Aug 10, 5:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZArmstrong47 min
Aug 10, 5:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZIndiana63 min
Aug 10, 5:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSchuyler40 min
Aug 10, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPPotter40 min
Aug 10, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZWestmoreland64 min
Aug 10, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMSteuben62 min
Aug 10, 6:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMCayuga23 min
Aug 10, 6:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga41 min
Aug 10, 6:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBGMOnondaga32 min
Aug 10, 6:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPTioga62 min
Aug 10, 7:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOswego57 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 103 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 2004-08-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 465 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 2004-08-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 167 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
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

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 11:54 AM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingston and 6 more96 min
Aug 10, 4:16 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung and 22 more89 min
Aug 10, 7:27 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllegany, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland and 18 more93 min
Aug 9, 10:14 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCWilliams61 min
Aug 10, 3:17 PM EDTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAthens, Belmont, Gallia, Guernsey, Hocking, Jackson and 8 more88 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.