Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 88, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2006, 1:47 PM EDT for Cayuga County, Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 58 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
- Aug 2, 2006, 1:47 PM EDT (17:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2006, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cayuga County, NY, Wayne County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:48 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 8 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.8 hours before the alert went out and 158 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 857 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -104 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1134 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 88 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 021747 SVRBUF NYC011-117-021845- /O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0088.060802T1747Z-060802T1845Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 147 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2006 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CAYUGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK WAYNE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 245 PM EDT * AT 145 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF CATO...OR ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF MONTEZUMA...AND MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... CATO BY 210 PM EDT... IN ADDITION TO DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. 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 4329 7692 4309 7692 4306 7657 4331 7662 $$ RSH
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS51 KBUF 021848 SVSBUF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 245 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2006 NYC011-117-021855- /O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0088.000000T0000Z-060802T1845Z/ WAYNE NY-CAYUGA NY- 245 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2006 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CAYUGA AND WAYNE COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 245 PM EDT... STORMS HAVE WEAKENED A BIT AND CONTINUE TO MOVE EAST. HOWEVER, A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT FOR CAYUGA COUNTY UNTIL 430 PM DUE TO SEVERAL SUCCESIVE STORMS MOVING ACROSS THE SAME PORTION OF THE COUNTY JUST NORTH OF THE THRUWAY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR CAYUGA COUNTY THROUGH 10 PM. LAT...LON 4329 7692 4309 7692 4306 7657 4331 7662 $$ NIZIOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe, Orleans | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 1:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 55 min | |
| Aug 2, 2:36 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Cayuga | 114 min |
| Aug 2, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 19 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.