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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 29, 2005Allegany County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2005, 2:05 PM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 58 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
Jun 29, 2005, 2:05 PM EDT (18:05 UTC)
Expired
Jun 29, 2005, 3:03 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Allegany County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:06 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, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 2005-06-29Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 259 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 2005-06-29The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
259 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-80 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
861 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 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 291805
SVRBUF
NYC003-291900-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0015.050629T1805Z-050629T1900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
205 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 158 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  HOUGHTON...OR ABOUT 22 MILES WEST OF DANSVILLE...AND WAS MOVING
  EAST AT 10 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE MOVING THROUGH...
  RURAL NORTHERN ALLEGANY COUNTY.

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 4252 7821 4242 7823 4229 7778 4246 7780

$$

SFM
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS51 KBUF 291844
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
243 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005

NYC003-291900-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0015.000000T0000Z-050629T1900Z/
ALLEGANY NY-
243 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 300 PM EDT FOR
ALLEGANY COUNTY...

AT 240 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO 
INDICATE A CLUSTER OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE 
NORTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY...FROM NEAR RUSHFORD TO 
FILLMORE...MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS...
  RURAL ALLEGANY COUNTY. WATCH FOR FLOODING AS WELL.

LAT...LON 4252 7821 4242 7823 4229 7778 4246 7780

$$

MCLAUGHLIN
000 
WWUS51 KBUF 291903
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
303 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005

NYC003-291913-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0015.000000T0000Z-050629T1900Z/
ALLEGANY NY-
303 PM EDT WED JUN 29 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ALLEGANY COUNTY EXPIRED AT 300
PM EDT...

RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE
STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS.

LAT...LON 4252 7821 4242 7823 4229 7778 4246 7780

$$

MCLAUGHLIN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 28, 8:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFJefferson, Oswego41 min
Jun 28, 9:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLewis51 min
Jun 29, 3:36 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFAllegany3 hr

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.