Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 25, 2006Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2006, 8:24 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 21 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
Aug 25, 2006, 8:24 PM EDT (00:24 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 2006, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
21 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Erie County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:26 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Aug 25, 8:35 PM EDTHAIL 0.75Holland, NY5 MINUTES OF PEA TO PENNY SIZE HAIL

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 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 28 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 00:00Z on 2006-08-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 41 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 2006-08-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 70 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
41 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-114 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
845 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
70 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
354 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 260024
SVRBUF
NYC029-260100-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0093.060826T0024Z-060826T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
824 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 822 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.  THIS
  STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES NORTHEAST OF COLDEN...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  SOUTH OF EAST AURORA...AND MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CHAFFEE BY 840 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4278 7856 4278 7853 4275 7845 4272 7847
      4254 7847 4254 7850 4265 7873 4280 7862

$$

LEVAN
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KBUF 260045
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
844 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006

NYC029-260054-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0093.000000T0000Z-060826T0100Z/
ERIE NY-
844 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ERIE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

AT 844 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY 
...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4278 7856 4278 7853 4275 7845 4272 7847
      4254 7847 4254 7850 4265 7873 4280 7862

$$

LEVAN

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 9:03 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua42 min
Aug 25, 9:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany34 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.