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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 25, 2006Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2006, 3:01 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 59 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: Jul 25, 2006, 3:01 PM EDT (19:01 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2006, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:01 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, 7.0 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 304 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -113 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1139 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 0 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 0 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 0 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 251901
SVRBUF
NYC009-013-252000-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0066.060725T1901Z-060725T2000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
301 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 255 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. 
  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES WEST
  OF OTTO TO FALCONER TO 6 MILES WEST OF CLYMER...OR ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF SALAMANCA TO JAMESTOWN TO 19
  MILES SOUTHEAST OF ERIE...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  OTTO BY 310 PM EDT...
  FREWSBURG BY 325 PM EDT...
  ASHFORD HOLLOW BY 335 PM EDT...
  SALAMANCA...ALLEGANY PARK AND ASHFORD BY 400 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4239 7833 4205 7841 4200 7871 4201 7976
      4208 7975 4217 7925 4246 7892 4246 7871

$$

TMA

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 251930
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
330 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 2006

NYC009-013-252000-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0066.000000T0000Z-060725T2000Z/
CHAUTAUQUA NY-CATTARAUGUS NY-
330 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 400 PM EDT
FOR CATTARAUGUS AND CHAUTAUQUA COUNTIES...

AT 328 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY
SIZE HAIL.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 10 
MILES NORTH OF FRANKLINVILLE TO LITTLE VALLEY TO CLYMER...MOVING 
SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  JAMESTOWN WEST AND JAMESTOWN AND ELLICOTTVILLE BY 335 PM EDT...
  ASHFORD BY 340 PM EDT...
  SALAMANCA BY 345 PM EDT...
  FREWSBURG BY 350 PM EDT...
  FRANKLINVILLE AND ALLEGANY PARK AND ISCHUA BY 400 PM EDT...

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL. SEEK SHELTER 
NOW INSIDE A STURDY STRUCTURE AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS

LAT...LON 4239 7833 4202 7832 4200 7871 4201 7976
      4208 7975 4217 7925 4243 7880 4244 7869

$$

TMA

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 252002
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
401 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 2006

NYC009-013-252011-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0066.000000T0000Z-060725T2000Z/
CHAUTAUQUA NY-CATTARAUGUS NY-
401 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CATTARAUGUS AND CHAUTAUQUA
COUNTIES EXPIRED AT 400 PM EDT...

RADAR INDICATED THAT VERY HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS 
WERE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 4239 7833 4202 7832 4200 7871 4201 7976
      4208 7975 4217 7925 4243 7880 4244 7869

$$

TMA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 2:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		92 min
Jul 25, 3:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		63 min
Jul 25, 3:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Wyoming	60 min
Jul 25, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany	95 min
Jul 25, 4:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston	65 min
Jul 25, 4:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		58 min
Jul 25, 4:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	63 min
Jul 25, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario	62 min
Jul 25, 5:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	66 min
Jul 25, 7:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	55 min
Jul 25, 7:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		50 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.