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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 79, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 29, 2008Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 29, 2008, 2:25 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 35 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 29, 2008, 2:25 PM EDT (18:25 UTC)
Expired: Jun 29, 2008, 3:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Erie County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:28 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 29, 12:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	8 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 19 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: 25 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -97 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1174 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 93 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 115 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 291825
SVRBUF
NYC029-291900-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0079.080629T1825Z-080629T1900Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
225 PM EDT SUN JUN 29 2008

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 300 PM EDT

* AT 223 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING NICKEL SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR   
  DERBY...OR 4 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HAMBURG...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT  
  40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ATHOL SPRINGS BY 230 PM EDT...
  BLASDELL BY 235 PM EDT...
  WEST SENECA BY 240 PM EDT...
  CHEEKTOWAGA BY 245 PM EDT...

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH...PREPARE
IMMEDIATELY FOR DAMAGING WINDS...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...AND DEADLY CLOUD
TO GROUND LIGHTNING. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

LAT...LON 4270 7906 4275 7896 4275 7892 4279 7887
      4285 7887 4291 7892 4295 7893 4298 7874
      4287 7871 4290 7853 4278 7865 4262 7898
TIME...MOT...LOC 1825Z 230DEG 36KT 4274 7892

$$

HITCHCOCK

1 follow-up statement

000 
WWUS51 KBUF 291856
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
255 PM EDT SUN JUN 29 2008

NYC029-291905-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0079.000000T0000Z-080629T1900Z/
ERIE NY-
255 PM EDT SUN JUN 29 2008

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 300 PM EDT...

AT 255 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.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY
EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4270 7906 4275 7896 4275 7892 4279 7887
      4285 7887 4291 7892 4295 7893 4298 7874
      4287 7871 4290 7853 4278 7865 4262 7898
TIME...MOT...LOC 1855Z 230DEG 36KT 4293 7860

$$

ZAFF

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 28, 8:35 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus	84 min
Jun 29, 1:00 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		112 min
Jun 29, 1:03 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	57 min
Jun 29, 1:07 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		103 min
Jun 29, 1:13 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	77 min
Jun 29, 1:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Niagara	74 min
Jun 29, 2:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Orleans	53 min
Jun 29, 2:23 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		97 min
Jun 29, 2:33 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	27 min
Jun 29, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Erie, Wyoming	65 min
Jun 29, 3:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany, Livingston, Wyoming	56 min
Jun 29, 3:51 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		54 min
Jun 29, 4:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		89 min
Jun 29, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Ontario	79 min
Jun 29, 4:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	21 min
Jun 29, 4:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	74 min
Jun 29, 4:43 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		32 min
Jun 29, 4:49 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		116 min
Jun 29, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	63 min
Jun 29, 5:01 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		89 min
Jun 29, 5:10 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	48 min
Jun 29, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	47 min
Jun 29, 5:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	72 min
Jun 29, 5:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	41 min
Jun 29, 5:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	22 min
Jun 29, 6:44 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.