Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Buffalo, NY
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.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 8:35 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Holland, NY | 5 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.
- 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
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
$$
LEVAN1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KBUF 260045
SVSBUF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
844 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006
NYC029-260054-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0093.000000T0000Z-060826T0100Z/
ERIE NY-
844 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR ERIE COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
AT 844 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE COUNTY
...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4278 7856 4278 7853 4275 7845 4272 7847
4254 7847 4254 7850 4265 7873 4280 7862
$$
LEVANThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 9:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 42 min |
| Aug 25, 9:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 34 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.