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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS Buffalo, NY

October 26, 2010Erie County, Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 2010, 5:28 PM EDT for Erie County, Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 62 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Oct 26, 2010, 5:28 PM EDT (21:28 UTC)
Expired
Oct 26, 2010, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
62 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

Counties Erie County, NY, Niagara County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:32 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.5 hours before the alert went out and 306 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, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2010-10-26Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Pittsburgh, PA at 12:00Z on 2010-10-26The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 222 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
3 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-104 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1091 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
222 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
248 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Oct 26, 3:56 AM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBUF52 hr
Oct 26, 4:44 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF55 min
Oct 26, 5:05 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF85 min
Oct 26, 5:21 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF84 min
Oct 26, 6:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee, Orleans41 min
Oct 26, 6:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus, Chautauqua68 min
Oct 26, 6:41 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF82 min
Oct 26, 7:15 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFAllegany75 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.