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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 29, 2006Allegany County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2006, 4:15 PM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 60 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, 4:15 PM EDT (20:15 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2006, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Allegany County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:15 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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 72 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 292016
SVRBUF
NYC003-292115-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0034.060629T2015Z-060629T2115Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 515 PM EDT

* AT 409 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 HOUGHTON...OR ABOUT 24     
  MILES NORTHWEST OF WELLSVILLE...AND MOVING EAST AT 10 MPH. 

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  FILLMORE BY 420 PM EDT...
  BIRDSALL BY 505 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4251 7828 4233 7827 4232 7786 4254 7787

$$

TJP

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 292050
SVSBUF

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

NYC003-292115-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0034.000000T0000Z-060629T2115Z/
ALLEGANY NY-
448 PM EDT THU JUN 29 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 515 PM EDT
FOR ALLEGANY COUNTY...

AT 440 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 6 MILES EAST OF 
FILLMORE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL IN NORTHERN ALLEGANY COUNTY NORTH OF 
BIRDSALL FOR THE NEXT HALF HOUR.

LAT...LON 4251 7828 4233 7827 4232 7786 4254 7787

$$

ZAFF

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 292111
SVSBUF

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

NYC003-292121-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0034.000000T0000Z-060629T2115Z/
ALLEGANY NY-
511 PM EDT THU JUN 29 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ALLEGANY COUNTY EXPIRES AT 515
PM EDT...

AT 511 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND WAS NO LONGER
SEVERE...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 4251 7828 4233 7827 4232 7786 4254 7787

$$

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, 3:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	58 min
Jun 29, 3:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wyoming	66 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

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.