Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2011
Tornado Warning 3, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at May 26, 2011, 5:43 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 32 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 26, 2011, 5:43 PM EDT (21:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 26, 2011, 6:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 32 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:44 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 26, 5:50 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Sherman, NY | TREES WIRES DOWN |
| May 26, 6:00 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Mayville, NY | TREES WIRES DOWN |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -52 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 868 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 329 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
667 WFUS51 KBUF 262143 TORBUF NYC013-262215- /O.NEW.KBUF.TO.W.0003.110526T2143Z-110526T2215Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 543 PM EDT THU MAY 26 2011 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK... * UNTIL 615 PM EDT * AT 539 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO 4 MILES SOUTH OF FINDLEY LAKE...OR 25 MILES WEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. * THE TORNADO WILL BE NEAR... SHERMAN... BEMUS POINT... CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTE... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK. && LAT...LON 4237 7928 4213 7921 4201 7976 4215 7977 TIME...MOT...LOC 2142Z 240DEG 49KT 4209 7968 $$ HIBBERT
2 follow-up statements
664 WWUS51 KBUF 262157 SVSBUF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 557 PM EDT THU MAY 26 2011 NYC013-262215- /O.CON.KBUF.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-110526T2215Z/ CHAUTAUQUA NY- 557 PM EDT THU MAY 26 2011 ...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY... AT 549 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO. THIS POSSIBLE TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR SHERMAN...OR 18 MILES WEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 55 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... STOCKTON... CASSADAGA... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... WHEN A TORNADO WARNING IS ISSUED BASED ON DOPPLER RADAR...IT MEANS THAT STRONG ROTATION HAS BEEN DETECTED IN THE STORM. A TORNADO MAY ALREADY BE ON THE GROUND...OR IS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP SHORTLY. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS DANGEROUS STORM...MOVE INDOORS AND TO THE LOWEST LEVEL OF THE BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF DRIVING...DO NOT SEEK SHELTER UNDER A HIGHWAY OVERPASS. && LAT...LON 4237 7928 4217 7932 4210 7961 4218 7964 TIME...MOT...LOC 2156Z 236DEG 49KT 4220 7948 $$ TMA
818 WWUS51 KBUF 262216 SVSBUF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 616 PM EDT THU MAY 26 2011 NYC013-262225- /O.EXP.KBUF.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-110526T2215Z/ CHAUTAUQUA NY- 616 PM EDT THU MAY 26 2011 ...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR CENTRAL CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A NEW WARNING FOR CENTRAL CHAUATUAQUA AND NORTHWESTERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY THAT RUNS UNTIL 7 PM EDT... AT 615 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH THE POSSIBLE TORNADO HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA... THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT FRIDAY MORNING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4237 7928 4217 7932 4210 7961 4218 7964 TIME...MOT...LOC 2215Z 236DEG 49KT 4234 7919 $$ RSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 25, 8:28 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Chautauqua | 62 min |
| May 25, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 59 min |
| May 25, 9:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 57 min | |
| May 25, 9:41 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, Wyoming | 3 hr |
| May 25, 9:46 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 44 min | |
| May 25, 10:11 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 3 hr |
| May 25, 10:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 31 min | |
| May 26, 7:03 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Genesee, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans | 57 min |
| May 26, 10:22 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 53 min |
| May 26, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 64 min |
| May 26, 3:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 40 min |
| May 26, 3:37 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 19 hr | |
| May 26, 5:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 60 min |
| May 26, 6:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 38 min |
| May 26, 7:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Genesee, Monroe | 56 min |
| May 26, 7:05 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Chautauqua | 3 hr |
| May 26, 7:24 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 51 min | |
| May 26, 7:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 54 min | |
| May 26, 7:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Lewis | 65 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.