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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 19, 2007Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 19, 2007, 2:51 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 54 min. 3 reports 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: Jun 19, 2007, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
Expired: Jun 19, 2007, 3:45 PM EDT
In force: 54 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Chautauqua County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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
Jun 19, 3:30 PM EDT	HAIL 0.75	Cherry Creek, NY	PENNY SIZE HAIL
Jun 19, 3:45 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Sinclairville, NY	WIRES DOWN
Jun 19, 3:55 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Gerry, NY	SEVERAL TREES AND WIRES DOWN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 19, 12:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	9 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 150 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -143 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1612 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 191854
SVRBUF
NYC013-191945-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0036.070619T1851Z-070619T1945Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
251 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 345 PM EDT

* AT 246 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR JAMESTOWN      
  ...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CHERRY CREEK 305 PM EDT

SEVERAL OTHER STRONG STORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF 
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY AND WILL CROSS THE COUNTY BETWEEN 300PM AND 
345PM.  PERSONS ARE URGED TO TAKE COVER IMMEDIATELY. 

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT 
TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4225 7972 4202 7972 4201 7928 4203 7909
      4237 7909 4254 7912

$$

NIZIOL

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 191919
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
316 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007

NYC013-191945-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0036.000000T0000Z-070619T1945Z/
CHAUTAUQUA NY-
316 PM EDT TUE JUN 19 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM EDT
FOR CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY...

AT 311 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE TOWNS OF CHERRY CREEK AS WELL AS 
WESTFIELD AND MAYVILLE. THE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 
MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  BROCTON AT 320PM
  CASSADAGA AT 320PM
  FREDONIA AND DUNKIRK AT 330PM

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4225 7972 4202 7972 4201 7928 4203 7909
      4237 7909 4254 7912

$$

NIZIOL

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 19, 11:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	47 min
Jun 19, 11:55 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	35 min
Jun 19, 11:59 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wyoming	51 min
Jun 19, 12:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee	50 min
Jun 19, 12:21 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany	54 min
Jun 19, 12:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston	41 min
Jun 19, 12:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	60 min
Jun 19, 1:25 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		65 min
Jun 19, 1:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	56 min
Jun 19, 2:17 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		58 min
Jun 19, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Oswego	48 min
Jun 19, 2:44 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		61 min
Jun 19, 3:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		30 min
Jun 19, 3:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	38 min
Jun 19, 3:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	55 min
Jun 19, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	67 min
Jun 19, 3:32 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	28 min
Jun 19, 3:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	62 min
Jun 19, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		63 min
Jun 19, 4:04 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		86 min
Jun 19, 4:17 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	58 min
Jun 19, 4:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee, Wyoming	69 min
Jun 19, 4:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	56 min
Jun 19, 4:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	30 min
Jun 19, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		88 min
Jun 19, 4:47 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Orleans	58 min
Jun 19, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	90 min
Jun 19, 5:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston	66 min
Jun 19, 5:31 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		89 min
Jun 19, 5:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	77 min
Jun 19, 6:30 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		2 hr
Jun 19, 7:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Oswego	40 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.