Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 31, 2006Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2006, 3:50 AM EDT for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 25 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
May 31, 2006, 3:50 AM EDT (07:50 UTC)
Expired
May 31, 2006, 4:15 AM EDT
In force
25 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), 61 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 07:52 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 nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 57 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 00:00Z on 2006-05-31Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 916 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2006-05-31The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -10 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
916 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-128 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1851 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
3 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-10 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
-32 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 310750
SVRBUF
NYC121-310815-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0015.060531T0750Z-060531T0815Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
350 AM EDT WED MAY 31 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 415 AM EDT

* AT 344 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR WYOMING...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF
  BATAVIA...AND WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  COVINGTON  AND MIDDLEBURY BY 400 AM.

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 4286 7798 4286 7795 4285 7795 4284 7796
      4281 7796 4279 7798 4274 7810 4287 7823
      4287 7800

$$

LEVAN
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KBUF 310812
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
412 AM EDT WED MAY 31 2006

NYC121-310822-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0015.000000T0000Z-060531T0815Z/
WYOMING NY-
412 AM EDT WED MAY 31 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WYOMING COUNTY EXPIRES AT 415
AM EDT...

AT 412 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POSSIBLE TORNADO HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA...
THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 4286 7798 4286 7795 4285 7795 4284 7796
      4281 7796 4279 7798 4274 7810 4287 7823
      4287 7800

$$

LEVAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 31, 4:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLivingston49 min
May 31, 12:06 PM EDTAir Stagnation AdvisoryBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara and 2 more13 hr

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2006Every 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.