Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2007
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2007, 1:35 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 55 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
- May 31, 2007, 1:35 PM EDT (17:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2007, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -148 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1590 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 12 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 22 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 38 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 311737 SVRBUF NYC009-013-311830- /O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0005.070531T1735Z-070531T1830Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 135 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 230 PM EDT * AT 131 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN TO 24 MILES WEST OF ASHFORD...AND MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... ASHFORD BY 230 PM EDT... LAT...LON 4237 7899 4210 7957 4214 7891 4238 7839 $$
3 follow-up statements
000 WWUS51 KBUF 311800 SVSBUF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 200 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007 NYC009-013-311830- /O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070531T1830Z/ CHAUTAUQUA NY-CATTARAUGUS NY- 200 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM EDT FOR CATTARAUGUS AND CHAUTAUQUA COUNTIES... AT 156 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM FALCONER TO CATTARAUGUS...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM JAMESTOWN TO 13 MILES NORTHWEST OF SALAMANCA...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... RANDOLPH BY 210 PM EDT... EAST RANDOLPH BY 215 PM EDT... LITTLE VALLEY BY 220 PM EDT... ASHFORD AND SALAMANCA AND FRANKLINVILLE BY 230 PM EDT... LAT...LON 4237 7899 4206 7944 4208 7879 4238 7839 $$
000 WWUS51 KBUF 311815 SVSBUF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 215 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007 NYC009-013-311830- /O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070531T1830Z/ CHAUTAUQUA NY-CATTARAUGUS NY- 215 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 230 PM EDT FOR CATTARAUGUS AND CHAUTAUQUA COUNTIES... AT 209 PM EDT...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS REPORTED CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL. THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM FALCONER TO CATTARAUGUS...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES EAST OF JAMESTOWN TO 11 MILES NORTH OF SALAMANCA... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. THE HEAVIEST STORM WAS NORTH OF RANDOLPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... EAST RANDOLPH BY 220 PM EDT... LITTLE VALLEY BY 225 PM EDT... ELLICOTTVILLE AND ASHFORD AND SALAMANCA BY 230 PM EDT... DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED NEAR LAKE CHAUTAUQUA AND MARBLE SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED AT FALCONER WITH THESE STORMS. LAT...LON 4237 7899 4206 7944 4208 7879 4238 7839 $$
000 WWUS51 KBUF 311827 SVSBUF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 225 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007 NYC009-013-311835- /O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0005.000000T0000Z-070531T1830Z/ CHAUTAUQUA NY-CATTARAUGUS NY- 225 PM EDT THU MAY 31 2007 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CATTARAUGUS AND CHAUTAUQUA COUNTIES EXPIRES AT 230 PM EDT... AT 225 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND ARE NO LONGER SEVERE...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. BRIEF HEAVY RAIN AND SMALL HAIL ARE STILL POSSIBLE IN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY BUT DAMAGING HAIL IS NOT EXPECTED. LAT...LON 4237 7899 4206 7944 4208 7879 4238 7839 $$
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.