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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 5, 2016Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2016, 4:03 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 57 min. 3 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: Jun 5, 2016, 4:03 PM EDT (20:03 UTC)
Expired: Jun 5, 2016, 5:00 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Chautauqua County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:05 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
Jun 5, 4:54 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Jamestown, NY	TREES AND WIRES DOWN
Jun 5, 4:57 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Jamestown, NY	TREES DOWN
Jun 5, 5:00 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Lakewood, NY	TWITTER POST OF TREE ON HOUSE IN LAKEWOOD

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, 8.1 hours before the alert went out and 108 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: 175 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -2 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 705 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 133 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 89 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.0

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The text

As transmitted.

390 
WUUS51 KBUF 052003
SVRBUF
NYC013-052100-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0004.160605T2003Z-160605T2100Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
403 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 500 PM EDT

* AT 403 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER WATTSBURG...OR
  16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF ERIE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

  HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS AND QUARTER SIZE HAIL.  

  IMPACT...HAIL DAMAGE TO VEHICLES IS EXPECTED. EXPECT WIND DAMAGE 
           TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  JAMESTOWN...LAKEWOOD...FALCONER...MAYVILLE...CLYMER...JAMESTOWN WEST...
  CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTE AND FINDLEY LAKE.

THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 86 BETWEEN EXITS 4 AND 14.
 
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4214 7976 4248 7907 4200 7907 4200 7976
TIME...MOT...LOC 2003Z 240DEG 44KT 4200 7986 

HAIL...1.00IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

RSH

2 follow-up statements

540 
WWUS51 KBUF 052034
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
434 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

NYC013-052100-
/O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160605T2100Z/
CHAUTAUQUA NY-
434 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 500 PM EDT
FOR CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY...

AT 434 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED NEAR LONG POINT
STATE PARK...OR 12 MILES WEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40
MPH.

HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. 

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
JAMESTOWN...LAKEWOOD...FALCONER...MAYVILLE...JAMESTOWN WEST...CHAUTAUQUA
INSTITUTE...LONG POINT STATE PARK AND FREWSBURG.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A
BUILDING.

&&

LAT...LON 4221 7961 4248 7907 4200 7907 4200 7961
TIME...MOT...LOC 2034Z 242DEG 34KT 4212 7948 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
 
$$

RSH

656 
WWUS51 KBUF 052105
SVSBUF

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
505 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

NYC013-052115-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0004.000000T0000Z-160605T2100Z/
CHAUTAUQUA NY-
505 PM EDT SUN JUN 5 2016

...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY HAS
EXPIRED...
        
THE STORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT OF THE AREA.
THEREFORE THE WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE.

LAT...LON 4221 7961 4248 7907 4200 7907 4200 7961
TIME...MOT...LOC 2054Z 240DEG 44KT 4212 7948 

$$

RSH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 5, 12:32 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis, Oswego	58 min
Jun 5, 1:42 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	33 min
Jun 5, 1:48 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Lewis	27 min
Jun 5, 3:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		60 min
Jun 5, 3:35 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Niagara	55 min
Jun 5, 3:37 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		53 min
Jun 5, 4:55 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Erie	35 min
Jun 5, 5:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	56 min
Jun 5, 5:31 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany, Erie, Wyoming	44 min
Jun 5, 5:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus	75 min
Jun 5, 6:36 PM EDT	Special Weather Statement	BUF	Livingston	39 min

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; local storm reports from the same archive; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.