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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Buffalo, NY

January 9, 2008Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jan 9, 2008, 4:12 AM EST for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 28 min. 1 report 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: Jan 9, 2008, 4:12 AM EST (09:12 UTC)
Expired: Jan 9, 2008, 4:40 AM EST
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Niagara County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 28 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:16 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jan 9, 4:30 AM EST	TSTM WND GST 70	Lockport, NY	TREES/POWER LINES DOWN

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

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, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 30 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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 090912
SVRBUF
NYC063-091000-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0004.080109T0912Z-080109T1000Z/

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 500 AM EST

* AT 410 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 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF NIAGARA FALLS TO  LACKAWANNA...AND 
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  NEWFANE AND LOCKPORT BY 420 AM EST...

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

LAT...LON 4337 7850 4312 7849 4309 7877 4308 7891
      4311 7902 4327 7905
TIME...MOT...LOC 0912Z 235DEG 72KT 4326 7894 4293 7869

$$

RSH

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 090940
SVSBUF

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

NYC063-090950-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-080109T1000Z/
NIAGARA NY-
440 AM EST WED JAN 9 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NIAGARA COUNTY IS CANCELLED...

AT 440 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 CANCELLED.

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

LAT...LON 4337 7850 4312 7849 4309 7877 4308 7891
      4311 7902 4327 7905
TIME...MOT...LOC 0940Z 235DEG 72KT 4358 7831 4325 7806

$$

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, 3:57 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	63 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

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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.