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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 14, 2015Allegany County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Jul 14, 2015, 4:19 PM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 26 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: Jul 14, 2015, 4:19 PM EDT (20:19 UTC)
Expired: Jul 14, 2015, 4:45 PM EDT
In force: 26 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Allegany County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:21 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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
Jul 14, 4:20 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Ne West Almond, NY	STORM SURVEY FOUND DOZENS OF DOWNED TREES ORIENTED IN THE SAME DIRECTION FROM THE EASTERN END OF PERCH ROAD EAST-NORTHEAST TO NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROAD 2A AND KARR VALLEY ROAD. THIS DAMAGE WAS CONSISTENT WITH A MICROBURST AND NOT A TORNADO.

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, 8.3 hours before the alert went out and 95 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: 63 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 862 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 167 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.2

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The text

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

816 
WFUS51 KBUF 142019
TORBUF
NYC003-142045-
/O.NEW.KBUF.TO.W.0003.150714T2019Z-150714T2045Z/

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
419 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 2015

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN ALLEGANY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 445 PM EDT
    
* AT 418 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
  CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO. THIS DANGEROUS STORM WAS LOCATED
  NEAR ALFRED...OR 10 MILES WEST OF HORNELL...AND MOVING EAST AT 25
  MPH.

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  ALMOND AND WEST ALMOND. 

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 86 BETWEEN EXITS 32 AND 33.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

TAKE COVER NOW. MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE IN A MOBILE
HOME OR OUTDOORS...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER AND
PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

&&

LAT...LON 4237 7797 4245 7773 4240 7773 4228 7774
      4226 7790
TIME...MOT...LOC 2018Z 253DEG 20KT 4233 7787 

$$

APFFEL

1 follow-up statement

724 
WWUS51 KBUF 142045
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
445 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 2015

NYC003-142054-
/O.EXP.KBUF.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-150714T2045Z/
ALLEGANY NY-
445 PM EDT TUE JUL 14 2015

...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN ALLEGANY COUNTY WILL EXPIRE
AT 445 PM EDT...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 4237 7797 4245 7773 4240 7773 4228 7774
      4226 7790
TIME...MOT...LOC 2042Z 253DEG 20KT 4233 7787 

$$

REYNOLDS

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 13, 11:58 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	92 min
Jul 14, 12:20 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	4 hr
Jul 14, 4:03 AM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	6 hr
Jul 14, 4:10 AM EDT	Flash Flood Watch	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee and 10 more	21 hr
Jul 14, 4:16 AM EDT	Small Craft Advisory	BUF		35 hr
Jul 14, 8:40 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	20 min
Jul 14, 9:22 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	23 min
Jul 14, 9:27 AM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Chautauqua	18 min
Jul 14, 9:50 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie	4 hr
Jul 14, 1:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie	3 hr
Jul 14, 2:25 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Cattaraugus	50 min
Jul 14, 2:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Oswego	63 min
Jul 14, 3:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Erie, Wyoming	3 hr
Jul 14, 3:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus	67 min
Jul 14, 3:52 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Livingston, Wyoming	3 hr
Jul 14, 4:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany, Livingston, Wyoming	34 min
Jul 14, 5:24 PM EDT	Areal Flood Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie	5 hr
Jul 14, 7:51 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	3 hr

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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.