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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 28, 2006Ontario County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2006, 4:45 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 60 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Jun 28, 2006, 4:45 PM EDT (20:45 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2006, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Ontario County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:47 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 28, 5:40 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Clifton Springs, NY	TREE DOWN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 113 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: 313 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -51 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 702 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: -12 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 49 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: -0.0
Supercell composite: -0.2

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 282045
SVRBUF
NYC069-282145-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0023.060628T2045Z-060628T2145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
445 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 442 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 9 MILES NORTH OF CLIFTON
  SPRINGS...OR ABOUT 15 MILES EAST OF FAIRPORT. THIS STORM WAS NEARLY
  STATIONARY.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  SHORTSVILLE...MANCHESTER...HOLCOMB AND EAST BLOOMFIELD

LAT...LON 4303 7735 4304 7714 4301 7712 4301 7698
      4284 7738 4284 7741 4296 7752 4300 7751
      4306 7737

$$

TJP

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 282103
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
503 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

NYC069-282145-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0023.000000T0000Z-060628T2145Z/
ONTARIO NY-
503 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM EDT
FOR ONTARIO COUNTY...

AT 458 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR CANANDAIGUA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MANCHESTER BY 510 PM EDT...
  CLIFTON SPRINGS BY 525 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4303 7735 4304 7714 4301 7712 4301 7698
      4284 7738 4284 7741 4296 7752 4300 7751
      4306 7737

$$

JL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 4:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	60 min
Jun 28, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	55 min
Jun 28, 4:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe, Wayne	54 min
Jun 28, 5:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		60 min
Jun 28, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany	57 min
Jun 28, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario	60 min
Jun 28, 5:51 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	54 min
Jun 28, 5:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		31 min
Jun 28, 6:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga	43 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.