Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2013, 6:28 PM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 47 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
- May 10, 2013, 6:28 PM EDT (22:28 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2013, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
County Allegany County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2256 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 78 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
088 WUUS51 KBUF 102228 SVRBUF NYC003-102315- /O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0011.130510T2228Z-130510T2315Z/ BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 628 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL ALLEGANY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 715 PM EDT * AT 625 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 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF FRIENDSHIP...OR 9 MILES NORTHEAST OF OLEAN...AND MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... FRIENDSHIP... BELMONT... ANGELICA... BIRDSALL... 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 4249 7792 4230 7774 4211 7830 4217 7830 TIME...MOT...LOC 2228Z 237DEG 32KT 4217 7825 $$ RSH
2 follow-up statements
637 WWUS51 KBUF 102257 SVSBUF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 657 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013 NYC003-102315- /O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0011.000000T0000Z-130510T2315Z/ ALLEGANY NY- 657 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL ALLEGANY COUNTY... AT 653 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR ANGELICA...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF WELLSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE... BIRDSALL... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... DOPPLER RADAR HAS INDICATED SOME WEAK ROTATION WITHIN THIS STORM. WHILE NOT IMMEDIATELY LIKELY...A TORNADO MAY STILL DEVELOP. IF A TORNADO IS SPOTTED...ACT QUICKLY AND MOVE TO A PLACE OF SAFETY IN A STURDY STRUCTURE...SUCH AS A BASEMENT OR SMALL INTERIOR ROOM. && LAT...LON 4243 7788 4230 7774 4220 7805 4234 7802 TIME...MOT...LOC 2257Z 237DEG 32KT 4231 7796 $$ JJR
079 WWUS51 KBUF 102313 SVSBUF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 713 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013 NYC003-102323- /O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0011.000000T0000Z-130510T2315Z/ ALLEGANY NY- 713 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013 ...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CENTRAL ALLEGANY COUNTY WILL EXPIRE AT 715 PM EDT... RADAR INDICATED THAT HEAVY RAIN...SMALL HAIL...AND GUSTY WINDS WERE STILL POSSIBLE FROM THE THUNDERSTORM. LAT...LON 4243 7788 4230 7774 4220 7805 4234 7802 TIME...MOT...LOC 2313Z 237DEG 32KT 4239 7780 $$ RSH
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 2:48 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Cattaraugus | 42 min |
| May 10, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus | 43 min |
| May 10, 4:06 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 54 min | |
| May 10, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Orleans, Wyoming | 54 min |
| May 10, 4:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 38 min |
| May 10, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany, Livingston, Wyoming | 63 min |
| May 10, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie | 57 min |
| May 10, 4:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 36 min |
| May 10, 4:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus | 53 min |
| May 10, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans | 24 min |
| May 10, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 46 min |
| May 10, 5:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 26 min | |
| May 10, 5:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 55 min |
| May 10, 5:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 54 min | |
| May 10, 6:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 28 min |
| May 10, 6:08 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans | 3 hr |
| May 10, 6:21 PM EDT | Areal Flood Advisory | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 3 hr |
| May 10, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 45 min |
| May 10, 7:34 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 41 min | |
| May 10, 7:38 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Oswego | 67 min |
| May 10, 7:49 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie, Wyoming | 56 min |
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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.