Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2005

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 13, 2005Genesee County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2005, 2:57 PM EDT for Genesee County, New York. It was in force for 34 min. 2 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: Jun 13, 2005, 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired: Jun 13, 2005, 3:31 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Genesee County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 62 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:59 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

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 13, 3:10 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Stafford, NY	LARGE TREE DOWN
Jun 13, 3:25 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Le Roy, NY	LARGE TREE DOWN

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

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 59 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 12 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -266 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 47 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 131858
SVRBUF
NYC037-131930-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0004.050613T1857Z-050613T1930Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
257 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 249 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST   
  OF BATAVIA...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  LEROY BY 310 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 4305 7795 4304 7791 4301 7792 4296 7790
      4295 7794 4292 7794 4288 7806 4296 7814
      4303 7817 4312 7798 4313 7792

$$

NIZIOL

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 131931
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
330 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2005

NYC037-131940-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-050613T1930Z/
GENESEE NY-
330 PM EDT MON JUN 13 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR GENESEE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 330
PM EDT...

THE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE MOVED EAST INTO 
LIVINGSTON AND MONROE COUNTIES.


LAT...LON 4305 7795 4304 7791 4301 7792 4296 7790
      4295 7794 4292 7794 4288 7806 4296 7814
      4303 7817 4312 7798 4313 7792

$$

NIZIOL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 13, 3:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	60 min
Jun 13, 3:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston	32 min
Jun 13, 5:08 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		37 min
Jun 13, 5:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	20 min
Jun 13, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Orleans	56 min
Jun 13, 5:49 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		41 min
Jun 13, 6:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	42 min
Jun 13, 6:26 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		34 min
Jun 13, 6:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	38 min
Jun 13, 7:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario	38 min
Jun 13, 7:11 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Lewis	2 hr
Jun 13, 7:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		63 min
Jun 13, 7:31 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Livingston	119 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.