Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 140, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2008, 7:10 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 37 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
- Aug 9, 2008, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2008, 7:47 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:11 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 7:12 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | 2 Ne Cassadaga, NY |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 65 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
- 22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -23 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 993 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 51 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 71 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 092310 SVRBUF NYC009-013-100000- /O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0140.080809T2310Z-080810T0000Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 710 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2008 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHWESTERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK NORTHEASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 800 PM EDT * AT 706 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 17 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GOWANDA...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FREDONIA...AND MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SOUTH DAYTON BY 725 PM EDT... PERRYSBURG BY 735 PM EDT... GOWANDA BY 740 PM EDT... IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS. REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. LAT...LON 4255 7905 4239 7882 4229 7932 4238 7933 TIME...MOT...LOC 2309Z 248DEG 21KT 4237 7921 $$ HITCHCOCK
2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS51 KBUF 092324
SVSBUF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
724 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2008
NYC009-013-100000-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0140.000000T0000Z-080810T0000Z/
CHAUTAUQUA NY-CATTARAUGUS NY-
723 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT
FOR NORTHWESTERN CATTARAUGUS AND NORTHEASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTIES...
AT 720 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR SOUTH DAYTON...OR 10 MILES EAST OF FREDONIA...MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
AT 712 PM EDT...TRAINED WEATHER SPOTTERS REPORTED PENNY SIZED HAIL
JUST NORTHEAST OF CASSADAGA.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
SOUTH DAYTON BY 730 PM EDT...
PERRYSBURG BY 740 PM EDT...
GOWANDA BY 745 PM EDT...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
LAT...LON 4241 7920 4255 7905 4254 7904 4243 7888
4239 7882 4239 7884 4232 7916
TIME...MOT...LOC 2323Z 246DEG 23KT 4240 7912
$$
HITCHCOCK000
WWUS51 KBUF 092347
SVSBUF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
747 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2008
NYC009-013-092357-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0140.000000T0000Z-080810T0000Z/
CHAUTAUQUA NY-CATTARAUGUS NY-
747 PM EDT SAT AUG 9 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN CATTARAUGUS AND
NORTHEASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
AT 747 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA
AND WEAKENED...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
PLEASE REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT FOR RELAY TO
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO.
LAT...LON 4241 7920 4255 7905 4254 7904 4243 7888
4239 7882 4239 7884 4232 7916
TIME...MOT...LOC 2347Z 246DEG 23KT 4246 7893
$$
HITCHCOCKThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 78 min | |
| Aug 9, 3:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 52 min |
| Aug 9, 4:32 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 58 min | |
| Aug 9, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 37 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.