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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 70, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 25, 2006Lewis County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2006, 4:42 PM EDT for Lewis County, New York. It was in force for 63 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: Jul 25, 2006, 4:42 PM EDT (20:42 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2006, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lewis County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:42 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
Jul 25, 4:55 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Highmarket, NY	WIND ESTIMATED AT 60 MPH

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 162 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: 1187 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 160 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 252043
SVRBUF
NYC049-252145-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0070.060725T2042Z-060725T2145Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LEWIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 437 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE
  LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM HIGHMARKET TO 7 MILES SOUTH OF
  HIGHMARKET TO 11 MILES SOUTH OF HIGHMARKET...OR ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF BOONVILLE TO 10 MILES WEST OF
  BOONVILLE TO 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF CAMDEN...AND MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  TURIN AND CONSTABLEVILLE BY 450 PM EDT...
  PORT LEYDEN AND LYONS FALLS BY 500 PM EDT...

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

LAT...LON 4368 7563 4348 7562 4338 7570 4345 7511
      4360 7509 4372 7512

$$

JJP

2 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 252111
SVSBUF

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

NYC049-252145-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-060725T2145Z/
LEWIS NY-
506 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 2006

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 545 PM EDT
FOR LEWIS COUNTY...

AT 503 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY
SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS
WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM LYONS FALLS TO PORT
LEYDEN...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 9 MILES NORTH OF BOONVILLE TO
7 MILES NORTH OF BOONVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. ANOTHER STORM 
JUST SOUTH OF HIGHMARKET WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST AND PASS NEAR 
CONSTABLEVILLE AROUND 520 PM TO 530 PM.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST ACROSS SOUTHERN
  LEWIS COUNTY THROUGH 545 PM.

HAIL UP TO PENNY SIZE HAS BEEN REPORTED IN HIGHMARKET. IF YOU ARE IN 
THE PATH OF THESE STORMS...TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION TO PROTECT LIFE AND 
PROPERTY.

LAT...LON 4368 7563 4348 7562 4338 7570 4345 7511
      4360 7509 4372 7512

$$

JJP

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 252147
SVSBUF

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

NYC049-252156-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0070.000000T0000Z-060725T2145Z/
LEWIS NY-
546 PM EDT TUE JUL 25 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LEWIS COUNTY EXPIRED AT 545 PM
EDT...

AT 546 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.

RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE 
STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHERN LEWIS COUNTY 
FOR THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. THE HEAVY RAIN COULD CAUSE POOR DRAINAGE 
FLOODING.

LAT...LON 4368 7563 4348 7562 4338 7570 4345 7511
      4360 7509 4372 7512

$$

JJP

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, 3:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	59 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, 4:58 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

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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.