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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 25, 20094 counties in New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 2009, 8:01 PM EDT for 4 counties in New York. It was in force for 31 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 25, 2009, 8:01 PM EDT (00:01 UTC)
Expired
Jun 25, 2009, 8:32 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Erie County, NY, Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:04 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, 0.0 hours before the alert went out and 55 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 2009-06-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 127 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 2009-06-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 151 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
127 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-180 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1645 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
151 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
201 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.7

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 260001
SVRBUF
NYC003-009-029-121-260100-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0018.090626T0001Z-090626T0100Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
801 PM EDT THU JUN 25 2009

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN ALLEGANY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  NORTHEASTERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  SOUTHEASTERN ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  SOUTHWESTERN WYOMING COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 900 PM EDT

* AT 801 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING PENNY SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  SPRINGVILLE...OR 13 MILES SOUTHEAST OF HAMBURG...AND MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SPRINGVILLE BY 810 PM EDT...
  FRANKLINVILLE BY 850 PM EDT...

LAT...LON 4251 7804 4214 7848 4254 7891 4267 7875
TIME...MOT...LOC 0001Z 309DEG 22KT 4255 7873

$$

ZAFF
1 follow-up statement
000 
WWUS51 KBUF 260032
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
832 PM EDT THU JUN 25 2009

NYC003-009-029-121-260042-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0018.000000T0000Z-090626T0100Z/
CATTARAUGUS NY-ALLEGANY NY-WYOMING NY-ERIE NY-
832 PM EDT THU JUN 25 2009

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHEASTERN ERIE...
SOUTHWESTERN WYOMING...NORTHWESTERN ALLEGANY AND NORTHEASTERN
CATTARAUGUS COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

AT 832 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 CANCELLED.

RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE
STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM.

LAT...LON 4251 7804 4214 7848 4254 7891 4267 7875
TIME...MOT...LOC 0032Z 309DEG 22KT 4243 7853

$$

ZAFF

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 25, 8:10 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF37 min
Jun 25, 8:14 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF31 min
Jun 26, 5:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga, Wayne62 min
Jun 26, 12:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee, Monroe65 min
Jun 26, 12:17 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany, Livingston37 min
Jun 26, 12:28 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF44 min
Jun 26, 12:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe, Orleans, Wayne64 min
Jun 26, 12:50 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF55 min
Jun 26, 1:06 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF84 min
Jun 26, 1:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe66 min
Jun 26, 1:32 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFMonroe, Ontario, Wayne3 hr
Jun 26, 1:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga, Monroe, Ontario, Wayne56 min
Jun 26, 1:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany29 min
Jun 26, 1:47 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFAllegany3 hr
Jun 26, 2:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLivingston, Monroe, Ontario67 min
Jun 26, 2:47 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF88 min
Jun 26, 3:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFJefferson49 min
Jun 26, 3:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFJefferson, Oswego31 min
Jun 26, 4:13 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF30 min
Jun 26, 4:39 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFWyoming87 min
Jun 26, 5:27 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF32 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.