Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2008

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Buffalo, NY

January 9, 2008Cattaraugus County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 9, 2008, 3:57 AM EST for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 63 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: Jan 9, 2008, 3:57 AM EST (08:57 UTC)
Expired: Jan 9, 2008, 5:00 AM EST
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Cattaraugus County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 67 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:58 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jan 9, 3:31 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	4 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 15 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1361 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 52 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 211 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 275 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 090858
SVRBUF
NYC009-091000-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0003.080109T0857Z-080109T1000Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
357 AM EST WED JAN 9 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 500 AM EST

* AT 355 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN
  EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING
  FROM PORT COLBORNE TO FREDONIA TO 10 MILES WEST OF JAMESTOWN...AND
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  OTTO AND ALLEGANY PARK BY 415 AM EST...
  ASHFORD HOLLOW AND SALAMANCA BY 420 AM EST...
  ASHFORD...ST. BONAVENTURE AND ALLEGANY BY 425 AM EST...
  HINSDALE...WESTON MILLS AND OLEAN BY 430 AM EST...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM EST
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4243 7889 4249 7856 4251 7833 4202 7834
      4203 7903 4250 7903
TIME...MOT...LOC 0857Z 247DEG 63KT 4280 7913 4252 7904
          4215 7925

$$

RSH

3 follow-up statements

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 090924
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
423 AM EST WED JAN 9 2008

NYC009-091000-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080109T1000Z/
CATTARAUGUS NY-
423 AM EST WED JAN 9 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EST
FOR CATTARAUGUS COUNTY...

AT 420 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE 
EXTENDING FROM 5 MILES SOUTH OF EAST AURORA TO 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF 
SALAMANCA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 65 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  OLEAN AND ISCHUA AND HINSDALE BY 430 AM EST...
  FRANKLINVILLE BY 435 AM EST...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM EST
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4243 7889 4249 7856 4251 7833 4202 7834
      4203 7903 4250 7903
TIME...MOT...LOC 0923Z 247DEG 63KT 4298 7856 4270 7847
          4233 7868

$$

RSH

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 090943
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
442 AM EST WED JAN 9 2008

NYC009-091000-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080109T1000Z/
CATTARAUGUS NY-
442 AM EST WED JAN 9 2008

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 AM EST
FOR CATTARAUGUS COUNTY...

AT 440 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING
WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE 
EXTENDING FROM 20 MILES NORTHEAST OF DELEVAN TO ALLEGANY PARK...
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  HINSDALE AND WESTON MILLS AND PORTVILLE BY 450 AM EST...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 AM EST
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4243 7889 4249 7856 4251 7833 4202 7834
      4203 7903 4250 7903
TIME...MOT...LOC 0942Z 247DEG 63KT 4311 7814 4283 7805
          4206 7860

$$

RSH

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 091001
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
501 AM EST WED JAN 9 2008

NYC009-091011-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0003.000000T0000Z-080109T1000Z/
CATTARAUGUS NY-
501 AM EST WED JAN 9 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CATTARAUGUS COUNTY EXPIRES AT
500 AM EST...

AT 501 AM EST 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 800 AM EST
WEDNESDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4243 7889 4249 7856 4251 7833 4202 7834
      4203 7903 4250 7903
TIME...MOT...LOC 0943Z 247DEG 63KT 4312 7812 4284 7803
          4207 7858

$$

RSH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 9, 3:22 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	38 min
Jan 9, 3:50 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	55 min
Jan 9, 4:12 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	28 min
Jan 9, 4:24 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee, Wyoming	33 min
Jan 9, 4:32 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Orleans	36 min
Jan 9, 4:51 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany	54 min
Jan 9, 4:53 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Monroe	34 min
Jan 9, 5:10 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario, Wayne	50 min
Jan 9, 5:40 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga	35 min
Jan 9, 5:46 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	44 min
Jan 9, 6:13 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	47 min
Jan 9, 6:29 AM EST	High Wind Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Jefferson, Lewis and 5 more	9 hr
Jan 9, 6:32 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	43 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2008 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2008

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.