Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2008, 2:51 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 22 min. 2 reports 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
- May 31, 2008, 2:51 PM EDT (18:51 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2008, 3:13 PM EDT
- In force
- 22 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 37 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:54 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:00 PM EDT | HAIL 0.88 | 2 E Youngstown, NY | |
| May 31, 3:05 PM EDT | HAIL 0.75 | Ransomville, 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, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 40 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
- 322 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -13 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 785 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 52 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 250 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 319 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
WUUS51 KBUF 311850
SVRBUF
NYC063-311930-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0026.080531T1851Z-080531T1930Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
251 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 2008
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
WEST CENTRAL NIAGARA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
* UNTIL 330 PM EDT
* AT 248 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL. THIS
STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR YOUNGSTOWN...OR 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF NIAGARA
FALLS...AND MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
RANSOMVILLE BY 300 PM EDT...
LAT...LON 4331 7886 4321 7884 4317 7906 4318 7906
4326 7906
TIME...MOT...LOC 1851Z 259DEG 35KT 4322 7906
$$
TMA1 follow-up statement
000
WWUS51 KBUF 311913
SVSBUF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
313 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 2008
NYC063-311923-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0026.000000T0000Z-080531T1930Z/
NIAGARA NY-
313 PM EDT SAT MAY 31 2008
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR WEST CENTRAL NIAGARA COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...
AT 313 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA...
THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4331 7886 4321 7884 4317 7906 4318 7906
4326 7906
TIME...MOT...LOC 1913Z 259DEG 35KT 4326 7877
$$
TMAThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 3:49 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 41 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.