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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 154, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 15, 2008Erie County, New York

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.

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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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2008-08-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 39 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 2008-08-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -21 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
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

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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

$$

HITCHCOCK
2 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

$$

THOMAS
000 
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

$$

TMA

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 15, 1:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie47 min
Aug 15, 1:45 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFJefferson34 min
Aug 15, 1:51 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF54 min
Aug 15, 2:47 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF33 min
Aug 15, 3:15 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBUFErie3 hr
Aug 15, 3:44 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBUFOswego91 min
Aug 15, 4:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie, Niagara55 min
Aug 15, 4:29 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFErie92 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.