Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2012
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 5, 2012, 1:36 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 39 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
- Aug 5, 2012, 1:36 PM EDT (17:36 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 5, 2012, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Erie County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 5 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:38 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 1:45 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Buffalo, NY | TREE DOWN ON LOUISIANA AND REPUBLIC IN THE CITY OF BUFFALO |
| Aug 5, 2:00 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Clarence, NY | TREES AND WIRES DOWN REPORT VIA WIVB TV |
Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 12:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 6 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
- 128 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1179 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 142 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.8
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
637
WUUS51 KBUF 051736
SVRBUF
NYC029-051815-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0056.120805T1736Z-120805T1815Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
136 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
* UNTIL 215 PM EDT
* AT 134 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BUFFALO...
AND MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
BUFFALO...
CHEEKTOWAGA...
DEPEW...
WILLIAMSVILLE...
CLARENCE...
AKRON...
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT SUNDAY
EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.
&&
LAT...LON 4309 7854 4309 7851 4308 7847 4294 7847
4286 7889 4287 7890 4294 7892 4295 7895
4296 7895
TIME...MOT...LOC 1736Z 248DEG 43KT 4287 7893
$$
ZAFF2 follow-up statements
219 WWUS51 KBUF 051803 SVSBUF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 203 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 NYC029-051815- /O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0056.000000T0000Z-120805T1815Z/ ERIE NY- 203 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 215 PM EDT FOR NORTHEASTERN ERIE COUNTY... AT 201 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR AKRON...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... NEWSTEAD... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. && LAT...LON 4301 7867 4307 7847 4294 7847 4290 7866 TIME...MOT...LOC 1803Z 250DEG 37KT 4300 7851 $$ ZAFF
315 WWUS51 KBUF 051814 SVSBUF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 214 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 NYC029-051825- /O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0056.000000T0000Z-120805T1815Z/ ERIE NY- 214 PM EDT SUN AUG 5 2012 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN ERIE COUNTY HAS EXPIRED... RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4301 7867 4307 7847 4294 7847 4290 7866 TIME...MOT...LOC 1815Z 250DEG 37KT 4304 7835 $$ ZAFF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 11:53 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 2 hr | |
| Aug 5, 12:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 1:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 51 min |
| Aug 5, 1:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 49 min |
| Aug 5, 2:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee | 28 min |
| Aug 5, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Livingston, Wyoming | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 2:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 56 min | |
| Aug 5, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 50 min |
| Aug 5, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 21 min |
| Aug 5, 2:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 96 min | |
| Aug 5, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe, Ontario | 33 min |
| Aug 5, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego | 64 min |
| Aug 5, 3:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego | 63 min |
| Aug 5, 3:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Aug 5, 3:57 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 111 min |
| Aug 5, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis | 49 min |
| Aug 5, 4:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 32 min |
| Aug 5, 4:32 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Jefferson | 77 min |
| Aug 5, 7:04 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Monroe | 56 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.