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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 99, NWS Buffalo, NY

September 28, 2011Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 28, 2011, 3:46 PM EDT for Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 29 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
Sep 28, 2011, 3:46 PM EDT (19:46 UTC)
Expired
Sep 28, 2011, 4:15 PM EDT
In force
29 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Storm-based polygon

County Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 131 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:48 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 12:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 128 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 2011-09-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 2011-09-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -5 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
608 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-5 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
52 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

039 
WUUS51 KBUF 281946
SVRBUF
NYC117-282015-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0099.110928T1946Z-110928T2015Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
346 PM EDT WED SEP 28 2011

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 415 PM EDT

* AT 343 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND
  DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
  PALMYRA...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF CANANDAIGUA...AND MOVING NORTH AT 20
  MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  MARION...
  WILLIAMSON...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM.
WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A
TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A
STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

&&

LAT...LON 4304 7713 4303 7733 4329 7730 4330 7709
      4327 7700 4301 7708 4302 7713
TIME...MOT...LOC 1946Z 189DEG 17KT 4307 7720

$$

HIBBERT
1 follow-up statement
466 
WWUS51 KBUF 282002
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
402 PM EDT WED SEP 28 2011

NYC117-282015-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0099.000000T0000Z-110928T2015Z/
WAYNE NY-
402 PM EDT WED SEP 28 2011

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 415 PM EDT
FOR WESTERN WAYNE COUNTY...

AT 358 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO
INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THIS STORM WAS
LOCATED NEAR MARION...OR 12 MILES EAST OF WEBSTER...MOVING NORTH AT
20 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  WILLIAMSON...
  PULTNEYVILLE...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE 
NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO 
IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY 
STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM.

&&

LAT...LON 4309 7714 4311 7732 4321 7731 4328 7730
      4329 7709 4326 7700
TIME...MOT...LOC 2002Z 189DEG 17KT 4317 7719

$$

HIBBERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 28, 4:03 PM EDTSmall Craft AdvisoryBUF4 days
Sep 28, 4:10 PM EDTSpecial Marine WarningBUF49 min
Sep 28, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWayne15 min
Sep 28, 6:10 PM EDTAreal Flood AdvisoryBUFMonroe, Ontario, Wayne3 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.