Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 28, 2006Cayuga County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 28, 2006, 6:32 PM EDT for Cayuga County, New York. It was in force for 43 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, 6:32 PM EDT (22:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 28, 2006, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Cayuga County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:31 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, 7:05 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Cato, 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 170 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 282232
SVRBUF
NYC011-282315-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0029.060628T2232Z-060628T2315Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CAYUGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 628 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 15 MILES WEST OF CATO...OR ABOUT
  11 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONTEZUMA...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CATO BY 710 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4307 7671 4308 7669 4321 7669 4322 7670
      4329 7670 4332 7663 4332 7661 4326 7661
      4324 7653 4313 7647

$$

TJP

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 282259
SVSBUF

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

NYC011-282315-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0029.000000T0000Z-060628T2315Z/
CAYUGA NY-
659 PM EDT WED JUN 28 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM EDT
FOR CAYUGA COUNTY...

AT 658 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH AND LARGE HAIL. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR 
IRA...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FULTON...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE AFFECT...
  RURAL CAYUGA COUNTY

LAT...LON 4307 7671 4308 7669 4321 7669 4322 7670
      4329 7670 4332 7663 4332 7661 4326 7661
      4324 7653 4313 7647

$$

TJP

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, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario	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

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.