Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2010
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 26, 2010, 6:07 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 68 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, 6:07 PM EDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 26, 2010, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:09 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 1:36 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 225 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.
- 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
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 26, 3:56 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 52 hr | |
| Oct 26, 4:44 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 55 min | |
| Oct 26, 5:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 85 min | |
| Oct 26, 5:21 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 84 min | |
| Oct 26, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 62 min |
| Oct 26, 6:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Orleans | 41 min |
| Oct 26, 6:41 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 82 min | |
| Oct 26, 7:15 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Allegany | 75 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.