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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 101, NWS Buffalo, NY

December 1, 2006Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Dec 1, 2006, 1:02 PM EST for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 44 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: Dec 1, 2006, 1:02 PM EST (18:02 UTC)
Expired: Dec 1, 2006, 1:46 PM EST
In force: 44 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 52 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:02 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.

The watch it was issued in

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

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Dec 1, 11:54 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 48 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: 8 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 439 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 248 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 486 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 011802
SVRBUF
NYC121-011900-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0101.061201T1802Z-061201T1900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
102 PM EST FRI DEC 1 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 200 PM EST

* AT 1258 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF JAVA CENTER TO 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  BLISS...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EAST
  AURORA TO 19 MILES NORTH OF OLEAN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BENNINGTON...VARYSBURG AND BLISS BY 110 PM EST...
  ATTICA BY 115 PM EST...
  PORTAGEVILLE AND WARSAW BY 120 PM EST...
  PERRY BY 125 PM EST...

LAT...LON 4286 7795 4267 7796 4261 7802 4260 7801
      4259 7804 4253 7804 4253 7845 4278 7844
      4279 7847 4285 7847 4287 7843

$$

ZAFF

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 011846
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
145 PM EST FRI DEC 1 2006

NYC121-011855-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0101.000000T0000Z-061201T1900Z/
WYOMING NY-
145 PM EST FRI DEC 1 2006

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

AT 145 PM EST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE LINE OF 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED 
AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EST FRIDAY
EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4286 7795 4267 7796 4261 7802 4260 7801
      4259 7804 4253 7804 4253 7845 4278 7844
      4279 7847 4285 7847 4287 7843

$$

ZAFF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Dec 1, 4:34 AM EST	High Wind Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 10 more	23 hr
Dec 1, 5:02 AM EST	Lakeshore Flood Warning	BUF	Chautauqua, Erie, Jefferson	23 hr
Dec 1, 11:34 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	56 min
Dec 1, 12:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Erie	36 min
Dec 1, 2:56 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Oswego	49 min
Dec 1, 2:58 PM EST	Special Marine Warning	BUF		62 min
Dec 1, 3:43 PM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	47 min
Dec 1, 4:15 PM EST	Lake Effect Snow Watch	BUF	Cayuga, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego	13 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2006 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.