Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2008, 2:37 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 53 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
- Aug 15, 2008, 2:37 PM EDT (18:37 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 2008, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Erie County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 16 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:38 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, 6.6 hours before the alert went out and 12 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
- 39 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1175 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 0 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 151837
SVRBUF
NYC029-151930-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0154.080815T1837Z-080815T1930Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
237 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
EAST CENTRAL ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
* UNTIL 330 PM EDT
* AT 235 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ALDEN...OR NEAR LANCASTER...AND MOVING SOUTH
AT 8 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
SOUTHERN LANCASTER BY 240 PM EDT...
ELMA BY 305 PM EDT...
IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS 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 4296 7864 4297 7849 4287 7848 4285 7848
4285 7849 4284 7866
TIME...MOT...LOC 1837Z 358DEG 7KT 4291 7856
$$
HITCHCOCK2 follow-up statements
000
WWUS51 KBUF 151908
SVSBUF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
308 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2008
NYC029-151930-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0154.000000T0000Z-080815T1930Z/
ERIE NY-
305 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2008
...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 330 PM EDT
FOR EAST CENTRAL ERIE COUNTY...
AT 303 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL.
THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ELMA...OR 6 MILES SOUTHEAST OF
LANCASTER...MOVING SOUTH AT 8 MPH. A SECOND THUNDERSTORM IS LOCATED
JUST NORTH OF LANCASTER AND ADVANCING SOUTHEASTWARD.
THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
ELMA BY 305 PM EDT
LAT...LON 4296 7864 4297 7849 4287 7848 4285 7848
4285 7849 4284 7866
TIME...MOT...LOC 1905Z 358DEG 7KT 4286 7856
$$
THOMAS000
WWUS51 KBUF 151926
SVSBUF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
326 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2008
NYC029-151936-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0154.000000T0000Z-080815T1930Z/
ERIE NY-
326 PM EDT FRI AUG 15 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL ERIE COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 330 PM EDT...
AT 326 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND WAS NO LONGER
SEVERE...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.
LAT...LON 4296 7864 4297 7849 4287 7848 4285 7848
4285 7849 4284 7866
TIME...MOT...LOC 1926Z 358DEG 7KT 4282 7856
$$
TMAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 1:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 47 min |
| Aug 15, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Aug 15, 1:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 54 min | |
| Aug 15, 2:47 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 33 min | |
| Aug 15, 3:15 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Erie | 3 hr |
| Aug 15, 3:44 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Oswego | 91 min |
| Aug 15, 4:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 55 min |
| Aug 15, 4:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Erie | 92 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.