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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 13, 2008Monroe County, Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 2008, 8:30 PM EDT for Monroe County, Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 15 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 13, 2008, 8:30 PM EDT (00:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 2008, 8:45 PM EDT
In force
15 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Monroe County, NY, Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:33 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 nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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 00:00Z on 2008-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 469 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 00:00Z on 2008-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 49 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
469 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-122 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1232 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
49 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
169 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.8

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 140030
SVRBUF
NYC055-117-140045-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0050.080614T0030Z-080614T0045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
830 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EAST CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  NORTHWESTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 845 PM EDT

* AT 825 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.  THESE STORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A
  LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF WEBSTER TO 8 MILES SOUTH OF
  ONTARIO...OR ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 8 MILES NORTH OF WEBSTER
  TO 7 MILES EAST OF FAIRPORT...AND MOVING EAST AT 19 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  ONTARIO BY 840 PM EDT...
  WILLIAMSON BY 845 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4325 7749 4328 7740 4329 7731 4328 7726
      4330 7722 4329 7716 4330 7715 4329 7711
      4326 7706 4309 7738
TIME...MOT...LOC 0030Z 248DEG 16KT 4333 7742 4311 7727

$$

SAGE
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KBUF 140050
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
851 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 2008

NYC055-117-140101-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0050.000000T0000Z-080614T0045Z/
WAYNE NY-MONROE NY-
851 PM EDT FRI JUN 13 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL MONROE AND
NORTHWESTERN WAYNE COUNTIES HAS EXPIRED...

AT 851 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 4325 7749 4328 7740 4329 7731 4328 7726
      4330 7722 4329 7716 4330 7715 4329 7711
      4326 7706 4309 7738
TIME...MOT...LOC 0030Z 248DEG 16KT 4333 7742 4311 7727

$$

SAGE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 8:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe, Ontario, Wayne45 min
Jun 13, 8:47 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF43 min
Jun 13, 9:34 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF56 min
Jun 13, 9:47 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF36 min
Jun 13, 10:10 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF35 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2008Every 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.