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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Buffalo, NY

April 13, 2006Livingston County, Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 13, 2006, 6:37 PM EDT for Livingston County, Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 34 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
Apr 13, 2006, 6:37 PM EDT (22:37 UTC)
Expired
Apr 13, 2006, 7:11 PM EDT
In force
34 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

Counties Livingston County, NY, Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:37 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, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 66 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 2006-04-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 2006-04-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 78 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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 132237
SVRBUF
NYC051-121-132330-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0008.060413T2237Z-060413T2330Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  WYOMING COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 730 PM EDT

* AT 632 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 11
  MILES WEST OF CALEDONIA...OR ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BATAVIA...
  AND WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  GENESEO BY 655 PM EDT...
  LIVONIA BY 705 PM EDT...

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 4290 7761 4268 7767 4282 7818 4287 7815
      4287 7800 4286 7797 4292 7792 4295 7792
      4296 7789 4299 7789

$$

TJP
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KBUF 132311
SVSBUF

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

NYC051-121-132321-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0008.000000T0000Z-060413T2330Z/
WYOMING NY-LIVINGSTON NY-
711 PM EDT THU APR 13 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR LIVINGSTON AND WYOMING
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

AT 711 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 CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4290 7761 4268 7767 4282 7818 4287 7815
      4287 7800 4286 7797 4292 7792 4295 7792
      4296 7789 4299 7789

$$

APB

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 12, 8:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus30 min
Apr 13, 5:50 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF55 min
Apr 13, 5:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWayne62 min
Apr 13, 6:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee49 min
Apr 13, 6:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe59 min
Apr 13, 6:42 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFMonroe26 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2006Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2006

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.