Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2016
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2016, 5:17 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 43 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
- Aug 13, 2016, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 13, 2016, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 43 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 103 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:16 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 5:25 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Mayville, NY | TREE LIMBS DOWN WITH POWER OUTAGES. |
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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 104 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
- 709 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -34 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 898 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 105 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.2
- Supercell composite
- 1.3
The text
As transmitted.
402
WUUS51 KBUF 132117
SVRBUF
NYC013-132200-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0052.160813T2117Z-160813T2200Z/
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
517 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK...
* UNTIL 600 PM EDT
* AT 516 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED OVER CHAUTAUQUA
INSTITUTE...OR 16 MILES NORTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 55
MPH.
HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED.
IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
JAMESTOWN...FREDONIA...WESTFIELD...LAKEWOOD...FALCONER...
MAYVILLE...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 4224 7976 4253 7908 4211 7908 4206 7975
4218 7976
TIME...MOT...LOC 2116Z 248DEG 49KT 4222 7951
HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...60MPH
$$
RSH2 follow-up statements
418 WWUS51 KBUF 132139 SVSBUF SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 539 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016 NYC013-132200- /O.CON.KBUF.SV.W.0052.000000T0000Z-160813T2200Z/ CHAUTAUQUA NY- 539 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR EASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY... AT 538 PM EDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF MAYVILLE TO NEAR LAKEWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. HAZARD...60 MPH WIND GUSTS. SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. IMPACT...EXPECT DAMAGE TO ROOFS...SIDING...AND TREES. LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE... JAMESTOWN...FREDONIA...LAKEWOOD...FALCONER...MAYVILLE...CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTE...LONG POINT STATE PARK AND JAMESTOWN WEST. THIS INCLUDES INTERSTATE 86 BETWEEN EXITS 7 AND 14. PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF A BUILDING. && LAT...LON 4233 7954 4253 7908 4211 7908 4208 7948 TIME...MOT...LOC 2138Z 252DEG 38KT 4233 7944 4210 7941 HAIL...<.75IN WIND...60MPH $$ RSH
527
WWUS51 KBUF 132156
SVSBUF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
556 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016
NYC013-132206-
/O.EXP.KBUF.SV.W.0052.000000T0000Z-160813T2200Z/
CHAUTAUQUA NY-
556 PM EDT SAT AUG 13 2016
...THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR EASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY WILL
EXPIRE AT 600 PM EDT...
THE STORMS WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAVE WEAKENED BELOW SEVERE
LIMITS...AND NO LONGER POSE AN IMMEDIATE THREAT TO LIFE OR PROPERTY.
THEREFORE...THE WARNING WILL BE ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. HOWEVER HEAVY RAIN
IS STILL POSSIBLE WITH THESE THUNDERSTORMS.
LAT...LON 4233 7954 4253 7908 4211 7908 4208 7948
TIME...MOT...LOC 2145Z 248DEG 49KT 4233 7944 4210 7941
$$
RSHThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 13, 8:11 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Jefferson | 34 min |
| Aug 13, 8:50 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Lewis | 40 min |
| Aug 13, 11:59 AM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie | 46 min |
| Aug 13, 12:34 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Genesee, Monroe | 41 min |
| Aug 13, 1:35 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Monroe, Wayne | 40 min |
| Aug 13, 1:48 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 57 min | |
| Aug 13, 2:14 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wayne | 31 min |
| Aug 13, 2:31 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 59 min | |
| Aug 13, 2:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 63 min | |
| Aug 13, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego, Wayne | 57 min |
| Aug 13, 2:50 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie | 25 min |
| Aug 13, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Wyoming | 55 min |
| Aug 13, 3:18 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 42 min | |
| Aug 13, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego | 67 min |
| Aug 13, 3:24 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Cattaraugus | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 3:41 PM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 28 hr | |
| Aug 13, 3:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 115 min | |
| Aug 13, 3:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Wayne | 54 min |
| Aug 13, 3:58 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wyoming | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 4:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Monroe, Ontario, Wyoming | 42 min |
| Aug 13, 4:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 39 min |
| Aug 13, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Wayne | 27 min |
| Aug 13, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 26 min |
| Aug 13, 4:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 39 min |
| Aug 13, 5:03 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 57 min | |
| Aug 13, 5:54 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Livingston, Wyoming | 36 min |
| Aug 13, 5:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 92 min | |
| Aug 13, 6:07 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 83 min | |
| Aug 13, 6:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany, Livingston, Ontario, Wyoming | 50 min |
| Aug 13, 6:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 90 min | |
| Aug 13, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Cattaraugus | 38 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.