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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 8, 2005Ontario County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 2005, 4:52 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 26 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 8, 2005, 4:52 PM EDT (20:52 UTC)
Expired: Aug 8, 2005, 5:18 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ontario County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 123 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 130 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1745 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 11 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 17 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 30 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 082052
SVRBUF
NYC069-082145-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0055.050808T2052Z-050808T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
452 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 449 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES SOUTH OF CLIFTON SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 6
  MILES WEST OF GENEVA...AND WAS MOVING NORTH AT 5 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CLIFTON SPRINGS BY 515 PM EDT...
  PHELPS BY 520 PM EDT...

THE STORM WILL PRODUCE DOWNPOURS AND RAINFALL RATES OF ONE TO TWO 
INCHES AN HOUR. BE ALERT FOR POSSIBLE POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING.

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.

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 4280 7698 4282 7721 4299 7721 4300 7723
      4304 7723 4304 7714 4301 7712 4301 7697
      4284 7697

$$

LEVAN

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 082118
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
518 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005

NYC069-082128-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0055.000000T0000Z-050808T2145Z/
ONTARIO NY-
518 PM EDT MON AUG 8 2005

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ONTARIO COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

AT 518 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED...THUS THE 
WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO PRODUCE HEAVY RAINS ACROSS THE REGION 
OVER THE NEXT HOUR. BE ALERT FOR PONDING ON AREA ROADS AND POSSIBLE 
POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. 

LAT...LON 4280 7698 4282 7721 4299 7721 4300 7723
      4304 7723 4304 7714 4301 7712 4301 7697
      4284 7697

$$

LEVAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 8, 6:22 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Wayne	113 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.