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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 30, 2006Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 2006, 7:14 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 61 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 30, 2006, 7:14 PM EDT (23:14 UTC)
Expired
Jun 30, 2006, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Niagara County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 34 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:15 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.

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 30, 7:55 PM EDTHAIL 0.885 Sw Lockport, NY

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, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 37 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 12:00Z on 2006-06-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 41 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2006-06-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
41 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-70 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1384 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 302314
SVRBUF
NYC063-010015-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0045.060630T2314Z-060701T0015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
714 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT

* AT 711 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR YOUNGSTOWN...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF
  NIAGARA FALLS...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SANBORN BY 730 PM EDT...
  PENDLETON BY 745 PM EDT...
  LOCKPORT BY 750 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4335 7904 4319 7914 4308 7871 4322 7849

$$

SFM
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS51 KBUF 302351
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
749 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006

NYC063-010015-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0045.000000T0000Z-060701T0015Z/
NIAGARA NY-
749 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 815 PM EDT
FOR NIAGARA COUNTY...

AT 744 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE 
HAIL. ONE OF THESE STORMS WAS LOCATED NEAR SANBORN...THE OTHER CLOSE 
TO GASPORT...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE OVER THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTY 
SOUTH OF LOCKPORT THROUGH 815 PM EDT.

LAT...LON 4335 7904 4319 7914 4308 7871 4322 7849

$$

SFM
000 
WWUS51 KBUF 010011
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
811 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006

NYC063-010021-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0045.000000T0000Z-060701T0015Z/
NIAGARA NY-
811 PM EDT FRI JUN 30 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NIAGARA COUNTY EXPIRES AT 815
PM EDT...

AT 811 PM 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 4335 7904 4319 7914 4308 7871 4322 7849

$$

SFM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 30, 1:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF34 min
Jun 30, 2:08 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF97 min
Jun 30, 2:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie61 min
Jun 30, 2:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWyoming54 min
Jun 30, 2:42 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF93 min
Jun 30, 3:00 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFErie30 min
Jun 30, 3:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWyoming60 min
Jun 30, 3:27 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie63 min
Jun 30, 3:47 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF43 min
Jun 30, 3:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFJefferson, Lewis64 min
Jun 30, 4:16 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF44 min
Jun 30, 4:36 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFJefferson, Lewis24 min
Jun 30, 5:12 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFJefferson48 min
Jun 30, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie61 min
Jun 30, 7:03 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF57 min
Jun 30, 7:42 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee48 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.