Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 2016, 12:31 PM EDT for Ontario County, Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 21 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
- Jul 15, 2016, 12:31 PM EDT (16:31 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 2016, 12:52 PM EDT
- In force
- 21 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
Counties Ontario County, NY, Wayne County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 124 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:33 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 121 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
- 71 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -36 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1304 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 51 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -4 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted.
886 WUUS51 KBUF 151631 SVRBUF NYC069-117-151715- /O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0030.160715T1631Z-160715T1715Z/ BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1231 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN ONTARIO COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK... SOUTHWESTERN WAYNE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK... * UNTIL 115 PM EDT * AT 1230 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR VICTOR...OR 7 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FAIRPORT...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. * LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... NEWARK...LYONS...PALMYRA...CLIFTON SPRINGS...PHELPS...FARMINGTON... MANCHESTER AND MACEDON. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 4295 7741 4312 7732 4315 7696 4289 7697 TIME...MOT...LOC 1630Z 272DEG 21KT 4300 7735 HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$ CHURCH
1 follow-up statement
267
WWUS51 KBUF 151652
SVSBUF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1252 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016
NYC069-117-151701-
/O.CAN.KBUF.SV.W.0030.000000T0000Z-160715T1715Z/
ONTARIO NY-WAYNE NY-
1252 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR NORTHEASTERN ONTARIO AND
SOUTHWESTERN WAYNE COUNTIES IS CANCELLED...
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN IS
STILL POSSIBLE WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM.
LAT...LON 4295 7741 4312 7732 4315 7696 4289 7697
TIME...MOT...LOC 1650Z 272DEG 21KT 4300 7718
$$
CHURCHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 14, 8:51 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Onondaga | 9 min |
| Jul 15, 4:05 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 18 hr | |
| Jul 15, 4:20 AM EDT | Beach Hazards Statement | BUF | Chautauqua, Erie | 18 hr |
| Jul 15, 11:57 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Ontario | 48 min |
| Jul 15, 12:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe, Ontario, Wayne | 23 min |
| Jul 15, 12:55 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wayne | 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.