Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2013
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2013, 5:35 PM EDT for Livingston County, Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 55 min. 1 report 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 10, 2013, 5:35 PM EDT (21:35 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2013, 6:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Livingston County, NY, Ontario County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 116 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:34 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 10, 5:39 PM EDT | HAIL 1 | Springwater, NY | REPORTED NICKEL AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL THAT COVERED THE GROUND. |
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, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 113 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.
834
WUUS51 KBUF 102135
SVRBUF
NYC051-069-102230-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0009.130510T2135Z-130510T2230Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
535 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
SOUTHEASTERN LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
SOUTHERN ONTARIO COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
* UNTIL 630 PM EDT
* AT 535 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
SPRINGWATER...OR 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF DANSVILLE...AND MOVING EAST
AT 30 MPH.
* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
NAPLES...
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 4263 7764 4293 7698 4276 7699 4276 7731
4272 7734 4267 7735 4266 7736 4258 7735
4257 7737 4257 7764
TIME...MOT...LOC 2135Z 256DEG 24KT 4260 7754
$$
RSH1 follow-up statement
421
WWUS51 KBUF 102211
SVSBUF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
611 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013
NYC051-069-102222-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-130510T2230Z/
LIVINGSTON NY-ONTARIO NY-
611 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 2013
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR SOUTHERN ONTARIO AND
SOUTHEASTERN LIVINGSTON COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
AT 612 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD EXITED THE WARNED AREA...
THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
LAT...LON 4263 7764 4293 7698 4276 7699 4276 7731
4272 7734 4267 7735 4266 7736 4258 7735
4257 7737 4257 7764
TIME...MOT...LOC 2212Z 256DEG 24KT 4266 7721
$$
JJRThe 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, 5:51 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, 6:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 47 min |
| 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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.