Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2007
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 8, 2007, 6:35 PM EDT for Livingston County, New York. It was in force for 40 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
- Jun 8, 2007, 6:35 PM EDT (22:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 8, 2007, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Livingston County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 8, 7:00 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Mount Morris, NY | TREES AND POWER LINES 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 8, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 74 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
- 648 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -252 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1305 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 220 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KBUF 082237 TORBUF NYC051-082315- /O.NEW.KBUF.TO.W.0001.070608T2235Z-070608T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 635 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 631 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO NEAR MOUNT MORRIS...OR ABOUT 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GENESEO...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... GENESEO BY 640 PM EDT... HEMLOCK AND LIVONIA BY 655 PM EDT... IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS IN EXCESS OF 70 MPH. THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4280 7796 4264 7795 4268 7765 4293 7757 $$ HITCHCOCK
2 follow-up statements
000 WWUS51 KBUF 082253 SVSBUF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 653 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007 NYC051-082315- /O.CON.KBUF.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070608T2315Z/ LIVINGSTON NY- 653 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR LIVINGSTON COUNTY... AT 649 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A TORNADO. THIS TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR CONESUS...OR ABOUT 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF GENESEO...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... RURAL LIVINGSTON COUNTY THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4280 7796 4264 7795 4268 7765 4293 7757 $$ TJP
000 WWUS51 KBUF 082307 RRA SVSBUF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 707 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007 NYC051-082317- /O.EXP.KBUF.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-070608T2315Z/ LIVINGSTON NY- 707 PM EDT FRI JUN 8 2007 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR LIVINGSTON COUNTY EXPIRES AT 715 PM EDT... AT 707 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA... THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT FRIDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4280 7796 4264 7795 4268 7765 4293 7757 $$ TJP
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 3:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 119 min | |
| Jun 8, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 61 min |
| Jun 8, 4:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 74 min |
| Jun 8, 4:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 115 min | |
| Jun 8, 4:59 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 61 min | |
| Jun 8, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 78 min |
| Jun 8, 5:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Wyoming | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 69 min |
| Jun 8, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 51 min |
| Jun 8, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 58 min |
| Jun 8, 5:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston | 82 min |
| Jun 8, 5:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 18 min |
| Jun 8, 6:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Wyoming | 24 min |
| Jun 8, 6:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario, Wayne | 55 min |
| Jun 8, 6:36 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 54 min | |
| Jun 8, 6:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 57 min |
| Jun 8, 7:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga | 64 min |
| Jun 8, 7:11 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 85 min | |
| Jun 8, 7:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 33 min |
| Jun 8, 7:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 71 min |
| Jun 8, 7:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 64 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.