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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 26, 2005Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 26, 2005, 5:01 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 29 min. 7 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued
Jul 26, 2005, 5:01 PM EDT (21:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 26, 2005, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chautauqua County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:04 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jul 26, 5:09 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGMayville, NYLARGE LIMBS DOWN INTERSECTION OF ROUTES 29 AND 430.
Jul 26, 5:09 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGMayville, NYLARGE LIMBS DOWN INTERSECTION ROUTES 29 AND 430.
Jul 26, 5:10 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGChautauqua, NY*** 1 INJ *** LARGE TREE FELL ON GIRL
Jul 26, 5:10 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGChautauqua, NYNUMBER OF BOATS CAPSIZED
Jul 26, 5:20 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGMayville, NYLARGE TREE DOWN LONG POINT STATE PARK.
Jul 26, 5:20 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGMayville, NYLARGE TREE DOWN ON ROAD AT LONG POINT STATE PARK.
Jul 26, 5:35 PM EDTTSTM WND DMGFalconer, NY8 INCH DIAMETER TREE DOWN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Jul 26, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 2005-07-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2005-07-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 162 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1909 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
162 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
184 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 262103
SVRBUF
NYC013-262130-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0032.050726T2101Z-050726T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
501 PM EDT TUE JUL 26 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 455 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A   
  LINE EXTENDING FROM FRENCH CREEK AT THE STATE LINE THROUGH      
  RIPLEY AND OUT INTO LAKE ERIE JUST WEST OF DUNKIRK. THE ACTIVITY   
  WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CROSS THE COUNTY BETWEEN 510 AND 530 
  PM. 

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 4212 7907 4211 7964 4222 7964 4223 7966
      4228 7966 4228 7954 4229 7953 4230 7937
      4231 7936 4232 7907

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 26, 3:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany36 min
Jul 26, 4:40 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF65 min
Jul 26, 4:50 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF40 min
Jul 26, 4:55 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFNiagara, Orleans51 min
Jul 26, 5:04 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF41 min
Jul 26, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie49 min
Jul 26, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus65 min
Jul 26, 5:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua31 min
Jul 26, 5:38 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF97 min
Jul 26, 5:43 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany, Wyoming62 min
Jul 26, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee57 min
Jul 26, 5:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga, Wayne52 min
Jul 26, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe, Orleans49 min
Jul 26, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLivingston44 min
Jul 26, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOntario51 min
Jul 26, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOswego43 min
Jul 26, 7:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWayne33 min
Jul 26, 7:09 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF96 min
Jul 26, 7:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLewis51 min
Jul 26, 7:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOswego32 min

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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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.