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Severe Thunderstorm Watch 855

November 9, 20057 counties in New York; 4 counties in Ohio; 12 counties in Pennsylvania

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Nov 9, 2005, 11:35 AM EST for 7 counties in New York; 4 counties in Ohio; 12 counties in Pennsylvania. It was in force for 7 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Nov 9, 2005, 11:35 AM EST (16:35 UTC)
Expired
Nov 9, 2005, 6:40 PM EST
In force
7 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties

Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Wyoming County, NY, Ashtabula County, OH, Mahoning County, OH, Portage County, OH, Trumbull County, OH, Butler County, PA, Clarion County, PA, Crawford County, PA, Elk County, PA, Erie County, PA, Forest County, PA, Jefferson County, PA, Lawrence County, PA, McKean County, PA, Mercer County, PA, Venango County, PA, Warren County, PA

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

Warnings issued inside it

13 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 9, 11:57 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua48 min
Nov 9, 12:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus50 min
Nov 9, 12:55 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua, Erie65 min
Nov 9, 2:53 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee, Monroe37 min
Nov 9, 4:09 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLEErie66 min
Nov 9, 4:23 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie52 min
Nov 9, 4:57 PM ESTTornado WarningBUFCattaraugus48 min
Nov 9, 5:05 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCLECrawford40 min
Nov 9, 5:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPWarren57 min
Nov 9, 5:47 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZForest, Venango58 min
Nov 9, 5:57 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningPBZButler, Clarion63 min
Nov 9, 6:26 PM ESTTornado WarningPBZClarion, Jefferson49 min
Nov 9, 6:31 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningCTPElk59 min

Discussions around it

SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 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 2005-11-09Temperature 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 2005-11-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 325 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
833 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
45 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
325 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
347 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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SPC that day

Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Nov 9, 10:49 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingston and 5 more116 min
Nov 9, 6:04 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chemung, Erie, Genesee and 11 more56 min
Nov 8, 7:35 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCDefiance, Paulding, Williams8 hr
Nov 8, 8:44 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Ashland, Athens, Auglaize, Belmont, Carroll and 59 more91 min
Nov 8, 10:15 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllen, Ashland, Auglaize, Champaign, Clark, Crawford and 30 more7 hr
Nov 8, 10:25 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Defiance, Fulton, Paulding, Putnam, Van Wert and 1 more2 hr
Nov 9, 12:29 AM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAllen, Ashland, Ashtabula, Auglaize, Carroll, Champaign and 52 more91 min
Nov 9, 3:31 PM ESTMesoscale DiscussionSPCAdams, Athens, Belmont, Brown, Carroll, Clermont and 39 more119 min
Nov 9, 4:35 PM ESTTornado WatchSPCBelmont, Carroll, Columbiana, Guernsey, Harrison, Jefferson and 10 more4 hr
Nov 9, 6:45 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCBradford, Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Lycoming and 8 more3 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New York, 2005Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Ohio, 2005Every severe thunderstorm watch 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.