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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 1, 2005Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2005, 4:24 PM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 53 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 1, 2005, 4:24 PM EDT (20:24 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2005, 5:17 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Oswego County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 27 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:25 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 watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Aug 1, 4:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 196 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: 367 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -58 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 525 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 119 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.4

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 012026
SVRBUF
NYC075-012115-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0048.050801T2024Z-050801T2115Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
424 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OSWEGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 421 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 23
  MILES NORTHWEST OF REDFIELD...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  WATERTOWN...AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  REDFIELD BY 505 PM EDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE WINDS AND LARGE
DAMAGING HAIL. SEEK SHELTER NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY
AWAY FROM WINDOWS

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 4349 7580 4342 7585 4344 7596 4365 7601
      4367 7605 4368 7601 4371 7601 4370 7597
      4369 7578 4348 7576

$$

ZAFF

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 012058
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
457 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2005

NYC075-012115-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0048.000000T0000Z-050801T2115Z/
OSWEGO NY-
457 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2005

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CONTINUES UNTIL 515 PM EDT FOR
OSWEGO COUNTY...

AT 455 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED 12 MILES NORTH OF REDFIELD...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL OSWEGO COUNTY

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
MONDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4349 7580 4342 7585 4344 7596 4365 7601
      4367 7605 4368 7601 4371 7601 4370 7597
      4369 7578 4348 7576

$$

ZAFF

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 012117
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
518 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2005

NYC075-012128-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0048.000000T0000Z-050801T2115Z/
OSWEGO NY-
518 PM EDT MON AUG 1 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR OSWEGO COUNTY EXPIRES AT 515
PM EDT...

AT 518 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA...
THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM EDT
MONDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4349 7580 4342 7585 4344 7596 4365 7601
      4367 7605 4368 7601 4371 7601 4370 7597
      4369 7578 4348 7576

$$

ZAFF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 1, 2:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	65 min
Aug 1, 2:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		59 min
Aug 1, 3:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		33 min
Aug 1, 3:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	61 min
Aug 1, 4:49 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BUF	Lewis	27 min
Aug 1, 5:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	36 min
Aug 1, 6:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		33 min
Aug 1, 6:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	40 min
Aug 1, 7:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	49 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2005 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2005

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.