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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 3, 2007Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 2007, 4:48 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 33 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
Jun 3, 2007, 4:48 PM EDT (20:48 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 2007, 5:21 PM EDT
In force
33 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), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:50 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 15 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 12:00Z on 2007-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 277 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 12:00Z on 2007-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 9 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
277 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-107 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1174 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
6 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 032049
SVRBUF
NYC029-032130-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0006.070603T2048Z-070603T2130Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
448 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2007

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 530 PM EDT

* AT 446 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 NEAR ALDEN...OR ABOUT 6 MILES
  EAST OF LANCASTER...AND MOVING NORTH AT 15 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  AKRON BY 505 PM EDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4308 7847 4288 7847 4287 7849 4286 7866
      4308 7871 4309 7863 4307 7861 4307 7858
      4309 7855

$$

HIBBERT
2 follow-up statements
000 
WWUS51 KBUF 032107
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
507 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2007

NYC029-032130-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070603T2130Z/
ERIE NY-
507 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2007

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 530 PM EDT
FOR ERIE COUNTY...

AT 505 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR AKRON...OR ABOUT 9
MILES EAST OF AMHERST...MOVING NORTH AT 20 MPH.

THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  RURAL NORTHEASTERN ERIE COUNTY

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4308 7847 4288 7847 4287 7849 4286 7866
      4308 7871 4309 7863 4307 7861 4307 7858
      4309 7855

$$

HIBBERT
000 
WWUS51 KBUF 032121
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
521 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2007

NYC029-032131-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0006.000000T0000Z-070603T2130Z/
ERIE NY-
521 PM EDT SUN JUN 3 2007

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

AT 521 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA 
AND MOVED INTO SOUTHERN NIAGARA COUNTY...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN 
CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4308 7847 4288 7847 4287 7849 4286 7866
      4308 7871 4309 7863 4307 7861 4307 7858
      4309 7855

$$

HIBBERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 3, 2:49 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFJefferson116 min
Jun 3, 2:59 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF91 min
Jun 3, 3:18 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFOntario117 min
Jun 3, 4:42 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFJefferson2 hr
Jun 3, 5:24 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF58 min
Jun 3, 5:31 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFNiagara29 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2007Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2007

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.