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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 10, 2008Allegany County, Livingston County, Ontario County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 2008, 5:14 PM EDT for Allegany County, Livingston County, Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 20 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: Jun 10, 2008, 5:14 PM EDT (21:14 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2008, 5:34 PM EDT
In force: 20 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Allegany County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Ontario County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:14 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
Jun 10, 10:02 AM EDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	8 hr
Jun 10, 2:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	7 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 98 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: 616 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1331 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 85 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 154 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.9

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 102114
SVRBUF
NYC003-051-069-102200-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0039.080610T2114Z-080610T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
514 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ALLEGANY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  SOUTHERN LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 509 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
  OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 21 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
  DANSVILLE...OR 16 MILES WEST OF ARKPORT...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT
  47 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  DANSVILLE BY 535 PM EDT...
  SPRINGWATER BY 545 PM EDT...
  NAPLES BY 555 PM EDT...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4227 7798 4242 7812 4288 7738 4277 7726
      4276 7731 4274 7733 4269 7736 4258 7737
      4258 7765 4254 7765 4254 7770 4251 7771
      4239 7772
TIME...MOT...LOC 2114Z 236DEG 41KT 4240 7794

$$

APB

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 102134
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
533 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008

NYC003-051-069-102143-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0039.000000T0000Z-080610T2200Z/
ALLEGANY NY-LIVINGSTON NY-ONTARIO NY-
533 PM EDT TUE JUN 10 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO...
SOUTHERN LIVINGSTON AND NORTHEASTERN ALLEGANY COUNTIES IS
CANCELLED...

AT 533 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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4227 7798 4242 7812 4288 7738 4277 7726
      4276 7731 4274 7733 4269 7736 4258 7737
      4258 7765 4254 7765 4254 7770 4251 7771
      4239 7772
TIME...MOT...LOC 2133Z 236DEG 41KT 4252 7769

$$

APB

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 10:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		91 min
Jun 9, 11:29 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		31 min
Jun 10, 6:54 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		63 min
Jun 10, 7:05 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	55 min
Jun 10, 7:43 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		51 min
Jun 10, 9:18 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Wyoming	27 min
Jun 10, 9:39 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Monroe, Ontario	38 min
Jun 10, 10:01 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe, Ontario, Wayne	44 min
Jun 10, 10:07 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		53 min
Jun 10, 10:41 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Oswego, Wayne	55 min
Jun 10, 10:48 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		42 min
Jun 10, 11:20 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego	55 min
Jun 10, 12:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	26 min
Jun 10, 3:56 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		81 min
Jun 10, 4:49 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	41 min
Jun 10, 5:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego	42 min
Jun 10, 5:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	26 min
Jun 10, 5:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	23 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.