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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 29, 2006Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2006, 3:32 PM EDT for Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 58 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: Jun 29, 2006, 3:32 PM EDT (19:32 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2006, 4:30 PM EDT
In force: 58 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:32 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 144 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: 110 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -108 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1072 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 3 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 291932
SVRBUF
NYC117-292030-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0032.060629T1932Z-060629T2030Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
332 PM EDT THU JUN 29 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 430 PM EDT

* AT 330 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 NEAR MARION...OR ABOUT 17 MILES
  EAST OF WEBSTER...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NORTH ROSE BY 410 PM EDT...
  WOLCOTT BY 425 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4310 7671 4308 7675 4309 7694 4307 7695
      4308 7712 4306 7717 4318 7721 4322 7721
      4333 7672

$$

TJP

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 291957
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
357 PM EDT THU JUN 29 2006

NYC117-292030-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0032.000000T0000Z-060629T2030Z/
WAYNE NY-
357 PM EDT THU JUN 29 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 430 PM EDT
FOR WAYNE COUNTY...

AT 335 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 MARION...OR ABOUT 16 MILES EAST OF WEBSTER...MOVING EAST
AT 20 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  NORTH ROSE BY 420 PM EDT...
  WOLCOTT BY 430 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4310 7671 4308 7675 4309 7694 4307 7695
      4308 7712 4306 7717 4318 7721 4322 7721
      4333 7672

$$

ZAFF

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 292022
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
422 PM EDT THU JUN 29 2006

NYC117-292032-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0032.000000T0000Z-060629T2030Z/
WAYNE NY-
422 PM EDT THU JUN 29 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WAYNE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 430 PM
EDT...

AT 422 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA...
THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 4310 7671 4308 7675 4309 7694 4307 7695
      4308 7712 4306 7717 4318 7721 4322 7721
      4333 7672

$$

ZAFF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 29, 12:19 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		86 min
Jun 29, 2:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	57 min
Jun 29, 2:18 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		57 min
Jun 29, 2:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		63 min
Jun 29, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		93 min
Jun 29, 3:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany	59 min
Jun 29, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wyoming	66 min
Jun 29, 4:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany	60 min
Jun 29, 4:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga	23 min
Jun 29, 4:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		35 min
Jun 29, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	55 min
Jun 29, 5:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	32 min

Nearby

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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.