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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 9, 2011Ontario County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2011, 1:22 PM EDT for Ontario 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
Aug 9, 2011, 1:22 PM EDT (17:22 UTC)
Expired
Aug 9, 2011, 1:37 PM EDT
In force
15 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Ontario County, NY

The radar

The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:25 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 135 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 12:00Z on 2011-08-09Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 485 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 12:00Z on 2011-08-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 8 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
485 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-24 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
759 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
8 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.1
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

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

064 
WUUS51 KBUF 091722
SVRBUF
NYC069-091745-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0071.110809T1722Z-110809T1745Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
122 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ONTARIO COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 145 PM EDT

* AT 117 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR PHELPS...AND   
  MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

LAT...LON 4294 7720 4302 7708 4301 7696 4287 7695
      4286 7697 4277 7698 4277 7702
TIME...MOT...LOC 1721Z 230DEG 28KT 4293 7702

$$

NIZIOL
1 follow-up statement
113 
WWUS51 KBUF 091737
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
137 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011

NYC069-091745-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0071.000000T0000Z-110809T1745Z/
ONTARIO NY-
137 PM EDT TUE AUG 9 2011

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN ONTARIO COUNTY IS
CANCELLED...

AT 135 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD MOVED EAST OF THE WARNED 
AREA...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4294 7720 4302 7708 4301 7696 4287 7695
      4286 7697 4277 7698 4277 7702
TIME...MOT...LOC 1735Z 242DEG 29KT 4288 7685

$$

NIZIOL

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 9, 1:09 PM EDTSpecial Weather StatementBUFOntario51 min
Aug 9, 3:55 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBUF52 hr

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.