Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2006

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 95, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 25, 2006Allegany County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 2006, 9:40 PM EDT for Allegany 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: Aug 25, 2006, 9:40 PM EDT (01:40 UTC)
Expired: Aug 25, 2006, 10:14 PM EDT
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Allegany County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 109 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:42 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 1.7 hours before the alert went out and 105 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: 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 260140
SVRBUF
NYC003-260245-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0095.060826T0140Z-060826T0245Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1045 PM EDT

* AT 938 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 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF ALFRED...
  OR ABOUT 15 MILES WEST OF ARKPORT...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ALFRED BY 1000 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4245 7804 4228 7811 4205 7730 4231 7719

$$

TJP

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 260214
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1014 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006

NYC003-260224-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0095.000000T0000Z-060826T0245Z/
ALLEGANY NY-
1014 PM EDT FRI AUG 25 2006

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

AT 1014 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED AND IS NO LONGER 
SEVERE...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4245 7804 4228 7811 4205 7730 4231 7719

$$

TJP

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 25, 8:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	21 min
Aug 25, 9:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	42 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.