Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Buffalo, NY

April 13, 2006Monroe County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2006, 6:16 PM EDT for Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 59 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, 6:16 PM EDT (22:16 UTC)
Expired: Apr 13, 2006, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 59 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Monroe County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:20 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, 6:50 PM EDT	HAIL 1	Greece, 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 95 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 132216
SVRBUF
NYC055-132315-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0007.060413T2216Z-060413T2315Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 610 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 10
  MILES NORTH OF HILTON...AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR IRONDEQUOIT 
  AROUND 645 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 4354 7782 4332 7795 4318 7771 4315 7738
      4336 7740

$$

TJP

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 132237
SVSBUF

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

NYC055-132315-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0007.000000T0000Z-060413T2315Z/
MONROE NY-
636 PM EDT THU APR 13 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM EDT
FOR MONROE COUNTY...

AT 632 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR HILTON...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ROCHESTER BY 650 PM EDT...
  BRIGHTON BY 655 PM EDT...
  EAST ROCHESTER BY 700 PM EDT...
  FAIRPORT BY 705 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4354 7782 4332 7795 4304 7762 4306 7737
      4336 7740

$$

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, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	62 min
Apr 13, 6:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee	49 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.