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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 66, NWS Buffalo, NY

September 10, 2016Niagara County, Orleans County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 10, 2016, 7:24 PM EDT for Niagara County, Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 51 min. 5 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: Sep 10, 2016, 7:24 PM EDT (23:24 UTC)
Expired: Sep 10, 2016, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 51 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 70.0 mph

Counties Niagara County, NY, Orleans County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 58 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:26 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
Sep 10, 7:27 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Barker, NY	WIRES DOWN.
Sep 10, 7:38 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	2 Nw Lyndonville, NY	TREES AND WIRES DOWN.
Sep 10, 7:48 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Ridgeway, NY	TREES AND WIRES DOWN.
Sep 10, 8:06 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	3 W Kent, NY	TREES AND WIRES DOWN.
Sep 10, 8:18 PM EDT	TSTM WND DMG	Holley, NY	TREES AND WIRES DOWN.

Local storm reports filed while the alert was in force, from inside its polygon or its counties.

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 10, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 58 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: 65 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -62 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1006 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 106 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

As transmitted.

660 
WUUS51 KBUF 102324
SVRBUF
NYC063-073-110015-
/O.NEW.KBUF.SV.W.0066.160910T2324Z-160911T0015Z/

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
724 PM EDT SAT SEP 10 2016

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN NIAGARA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK...
  ORLEANS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 815 PM EDT.

* AT 724 PM EDT...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED ALONG A LINE
  EXTENDING FROM 14 MILES NORTHEAST OF NEWFANE TO NEAR LOCKPORT...
  MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH.

  HAZARD...70 MPH WIND GUSTS. 

  SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED. 

  IMPACT...EXPECT CONSIDERABLE TREE DAMAGE. DAMAGE IS LIKELY TO 
           MOBILE HOMES...ROOFS...AND OUTBUILDINGS. 

* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
  MEDINA...ALBION...HAMLIN BEACH STATE PARK...MIDDLEPORT...HOLLEY...
  LAKESIDE BEACH STATE PARK...WATERPORT AND POINT BREEZE.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

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

&&

LAT...LON 4342 7840 4341 7796 4337 7796 4336 7799
      4314 7800 4312 7861 4340 7863
TIME...MOT...LOC 2324Z 248DEG 41KT 4346 7854 4316 7859 

HAIL...<.75IN
WIND...70MPH
 
$$

HIBBERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 10, 10:18 AM EDT	Beach Hazards Statement	BUF	Cayuga, Chautauqua, Erie, Jefferson, Monroe, Niagara and 3 more	39 hr
Sep 10, 5:46 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		89 min
Sep 10, 5:53 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		82 min
Sep 10, 6:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Niagara	52 min
Sep 10, 6:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Niagara	64 min
Sep 10, 6:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	64 min
Sep 10, 7:12 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		93 min
Sep 10, 7:21 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		54 min
Sep 10, 7:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Genesee, Livingston, Monroe, Niagara, Orleans and 1 more	49 min
Sep 10, 7:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie	43 min
Sep 10, 7:39 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		66 min
Sep 10, 7:59 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie	61 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.