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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 21, 2013Ontario County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 21, 2013, 5:45 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 15 min. 4 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 21, 2013, 5:45 PM EDT (21:45 UTC)
Expired: May 21, 2013, 6:00 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), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:48 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 21, 5:45 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	1 S Bilsboro, NY	REPORT OF A LARGE TREE AND POWER POLE DOWN.
May 21, 5:45 PM EDT	HAIL 1.75	1 S Bilsboro, NY	REPORT OF A LARGE TREE AND POWER POLE DOWN.
May 21, 5:47 PM EDT	HAIL 1	2 S Billsboro Corners, NY	HAIL DENTED WORK TRUCK
May 21, 5:52 PM EDT	HAIL 0.5	1 W Billsboro Corners, NY

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
May 21, 1:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	10 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 134 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1788 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -50 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 804 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 132 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 173 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 3.9

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

996 
WUUS51 KBUF 212145
SVRBUF
NYC069-212200-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0025.130521T2145Z-130521T2200Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
545 PM EDT TUE MAY 21 2013

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 600 PM EDT

* AT 543 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 6 MILES
  SOUTHWEST OF GENEVA...AND MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  GENEVA...

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

&&

LAT...LON 4287 7720 4292 7695 4287 7695 4286 7697
      4276 7697 4276 7716
TIME...MOT...LOC 2145Z 257DEG 29KT 4281 7705

$$

SMITH

1 follow-up statement

647 
WWUS51 KBUF 212203
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
603 PM EDT TUE MAY 21 2013

NYC069-212213-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0025.000000T0000Z-130521T2200Z/
ONTARIO NY-
603 PM EDT TUE MAY 21 2013

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL ONTARIO COUNTY
HAS EXPIRED...

AT 603 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA...
THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT
TUESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4287 7720 4292 7695 4287 7695 4286 7697
      4276 7697 4276 7716
TIME...MOT...LOC 2145Z 257DEG 29KT 4281 7705

$$

TMA

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 20, 10:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		52 min
May 20, 11:02 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Niagara	43 min
May 21, 12:39 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		51 min
May 21, 12:50 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		55 min
May 21, 1:01 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Oswego	59 min
May 21, 1:27 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	48 min
May 21, 1:40 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		50 min
May 21, 1:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	41 min
May 21, 1:59 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	61 min
May 21, 2:13 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	32 min
May 21, 12:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario, Wayne	58 min
May 21, 12:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario	26 min
May 21, 3:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Wayne	58 min
May 21, 3:36 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	54 min
May 21, 3:57 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Wyoming	33 min
May 21, 3:58 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		62 min
May 21, 3:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	47 min
May 21, 4:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Wyoming	49 min
May 21, 4:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Ontario	28 min
May 21, 4:58 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Ontario	47 min
May 21, 5:05 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		85 min
May 21, 5:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		61 min
May 21, 5:22 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		83 min
May 21, 5:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	56 min
May 21, 5:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Oswego	57 min
May 21, 7:14 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	31 min
May 21, 7:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		35 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.