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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 22, 2014Cayuga County, Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 22, 2014, 6:49 AM EDT for Cayuga County, Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 56 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 22, 2014, 6:49 AM EDT (10:49 UTC)
Expired: May 22, 2014, 7:45 AM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Wayne County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 110 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:53 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 10.8 hours before the alert went out and 155 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: 210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -76 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 995 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 60 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 30 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 129 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

897 
WUUS51 KBUF 221049
SVRBUF
NYC011-117-221145-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0009.140522T1049Z-140522T1145Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
649 AM EDT THU MAY 22 2014

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHWESTERN CAYUGA COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
  WAYNE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 745 AM EDT

* AT 646 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING QUARTER SIZE
  HAIL...AND DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH.  THESE STORMS WERE
  LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 17 MILES WEST OF WILLIAMSON    
  TO SODUS TO 5 MILES SOUTH OF CLYDE TO 24 MILES SOUTH OF            
  LYONS...AND MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH.

* SOME LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE...
  WEEDSPORT...
  CATO...
  VICTORY...
  CONQUEST...
  FAIR HAVEN...
  WOLCOTT...
  SODUS BAY...


PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS...CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THESE STORMS. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER...IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER...YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

&&

LAT...LON 4303 7649 4301 7700 4320 7719 4324 7738
      4328 7739 4330 7722 4328 7695 4330 7691
      4337 7695 4330 7690 4330 7687 4335 7670
      4341 7665 4340 7662 4325 7660 4326 7649
      4321 7647
TIME...MOT...LOC 1047Z 252DEG 19KT 4331 7750 4323 7707
          4302 7685 4274 7683

$$

SMITH

1 follow-up statement

201 
WWUS51 KBUF 221132
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
732 AM EDT THU MAY 22 2014

NYC011-117-221142-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0009.000000T0000Z-140522T1145Z/
WAYNE NY-CAYUGA NY-
732 AM EDT THU MAY 22 2014

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHWESTERN CAYUGA AND WAYNE
COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...

AT 732 AM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR SHOWED THAT THE SEVERE 
THUNDERSTORMS THAT PROMPTED THE WARNING HAD WEAKENED AND WERE NO 
LONGER SEVERE...THUS THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.

LAT...LON 4303 7649 4301 7700 4320 7719 4324 7738
      4328 7739 4330 7722 4328 7695 4330 7691
      4337 7695 4330 7690 4330 7687 4335 7670
      4341 7665 4340 7662 4325 7660 4326 7649
      4321 7647
TIME...MOT...LOC 1132Z 252DEG 19KT 4338 7719 4330 7676
          4309 7654 4281 7652

$$

LEVAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 22, 6:21 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Wayne	54 min
May 22, 6:49 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		56 min
May 22, 11:23 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		67 min
May 22, 1:06 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	84 min
May 22, 1:43 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	32 min
May 22, 2:17 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Lewis	6 hr
May 22, 2:47 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	58 min
May 22, 4:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	54 min
May 22, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	67 min
May 22, 7:55 PM EDT	Areal Flood Advisory	BUF	Jefferson	3 hr

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.