Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Buffalo, NY

April 13, 2006Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2006, 5:58 PM EDT for Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 62 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: Apr 13, 2006, 5:58 PM EDT (21:58 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2006, 7:00 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:57 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
Apr 13, 6:45 PM EDT	HAIL 0.88	Ontario, 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, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 107 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 886 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 78 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 84 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 132200
SVRBUF
NYC117-132300-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0005.060413T2158Z-060413T2300Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
558 PM EDT THU APR 13 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 700 PM EDT

* AT 552 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 49 MILES NORTHWEST OF SODUS...OR ABOUT 20 MILES
  NORTH OF HILTON...AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR PULTNEYVILLE BEFORE 7 PM. 

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN BUFFALO.

LAT...LON 4367 7798 4350 7808 4310 7706 4331 7683

$$

TJP

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 132220
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
619 PM EDT THU APR 13 2006

NYC117-132300-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0005.000000T0000Z-060413T2300Z/
WAYNE NY-
619 PM EDT THU APR 13 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR WAYNE COUNTY...

AT 614 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. 
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROCHESTER...MOVING 
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PULTNEYVILLE AROUND 7 PM.

LAT...LON 4367 7798 4350 7808 4310 7706 4331 7683

$$

APB

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 132304
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
705 PM EDT THU APR 13 2006

NYC117-132315-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0005.000000T0000Z-060413T2300Z/
WAYNE NY-
705 PM EDT THU APR 13 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WAYNE COUNTY EXPIRES AT 700 PM
EDT...

AT 705 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 4367 7798 4350 7808 4310 7706 4331 7683

$$

APB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Apr 12, 8:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus	30 min
Apr 13, 5:50 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		55 min
Apr 13, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee	49 min
Apr 13, 6:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	59 min
Apr 13, 6:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Wyoming	34 min
Apr 13, 6:42 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BUF	Monroe	26 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.