Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2016
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Aug 16, 2016, 6:09 PM EDT for Lewis County, Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 36 min. 2 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
- Aug 16, 2016, 6:09 PM EDT (22:09 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2016, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Tornado
- Radar indicated
- Hail
- 0.75 in
Counties Lewis County, NY, Oswego County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 30 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:10 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 16, 6:13 PM EDT | FUNNEL CLOUD | 3 Ssw Redfield, NY | MULTIPLE PUBLIC REPORTS OF A FUNNEL CLOUD. TIME AND LOCATION ESTIMATED BASED ON RADAR. |
| Aug 16, 6:15 PM EDT | TSTM WND DMG | Osceola, NY | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.2 hours before the alert went out and 174 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1098 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 134 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 174 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted.
964
WFUS51 KBUF 162209
TORBUF
NYC049-075-162245-
/O.NEW.KBUF.TO.W.0001.160816T2209Z-160816T2245Z/
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
609 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
SOUTHWESTERN LEWIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK...
EAST CENTRAL OSWEGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK...
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT
* AT 609 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A
TORNADO WAS LOCATED NEAR REDFIELD...OR 12 MILES NORTHWEST OF
CAMDEN...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED.
DAMAGE TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE
DAMAGE IS LIKELY.
* LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
REDFIELD...HIGHMARKET...WILLIAMSTOWN...CONSTABLEVILLE...OSCEOLA...
NORTH OSCEOLA...WEST LEYDEN AND SWANCOTT MILL.
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 OUTDOORS...IN
A MOBILE HOME...OR IN A VEHICLE...MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.
&&
LAT...LON 4342 7553 4348 7581 4338 7586 4338 7587
4353 7595 4370 7567 4360 7542 4348 7540
TIME...MOT...LOC 2209Z 236DEG 30KT 4349 7585
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
THOMAS2 follow-up statements
749
WWUS51 KBUF 162232
SVSBUF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
632 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016
NYC075-162240-
/O.CAN.KBUF.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160816T2245Z/
OSWEGO NY-
632 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR EAST CENTRAL OSWEGO COUNTY IS CANCELLED...
THE TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WHICH PROMPTED THE WARNING HAS MOVED OUT
OF THE WARNED AREA. THEREFORE...THE WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT FOR
CENTRAL NEW YORK.
LAT...LON 4342 7553 4347 7574 4357 7573 4358 7563
4360 7542 4348 7540
TIME...MOT...LOC 2230Z 264DEG 25KT 4351 7565
$$
NYC049-162245-
/O.CON.KBUF.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160816T2245Z/
LEWIS NY-
632 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016
...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 645 PM EDT FOR
SOUTHWESTERN LEWIS COUNTY...
AT 630 PM EDT...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED 7 MILES SOUTHWEST OF HIGHMARKET...OR 12 MILES NORTH OF
CAMDEN...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
HAZARD...TORNADO.
SOURCE...RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.
IMPACT...FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS...WINDOWS...AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE
IS LIKELY.
LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE...
HIGHMARKET...CONSTABLEVILLE...OSCEOLA...NORTH OSCEOLA...
WEST LEYDEN...SWANCOTT MILL AND MOHAWK HILL.
LAT...LON 4342 7553 4347 7574 4357 7573 4358 7563
4360 7542 4348 7540
TIME...MOT...LOC 2230Z 264DEG 25KT 4351 7565
TORNADO...RADAR INDICATED
HAIL...<.75IN
$$
THOMAS045
WWUS51 KBUF 162247
SVSBUF
SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
647 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016
NYC049-162255-
/O.EXP.KBUF.TO.W.0001.000000T0000Z-160816T2245Z/
LEWIS NY-
647 PM EDT TUE AUG 16 2016
...THE TORNADO WARNING FOR SOUTHWESTERN LEWIS COUNTY HAS EXPIRED...
THE TORNADO WARNING THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY IN EFFECT HAS BEEN REISSUED
FOR SOUTHERN LEWIS COUNTY AND IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 715 PM. PLEASE
REFER TO THAT BULLETIN FOR THE LATEST SEVERE WEATHER INFORMATION.
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 100 AM EDT FOR
CENTRAL NEW YORK.
LAT...LON 4342 7553 4347 7574 4357 7573 4358 7563
4360 7542 4348 7540
TIME...MOT...LOC 2244Z 236DEG 30KT 4351 7565
$$
THOMASThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:00 AM EDT | Small Craft Advisory | BUF | 33 hr | |
| Aug 16, 10:55 AM EDT | Gale Warning | BUF | 15 hr | |
| Aug 16, 3:45 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Monroe | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 4:02 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 58 min | |
| Aug 16, 4:21 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Wayne | 24 min |
| Aug 16, 4:37 PM EDT | Special Weather Statement | BUF | Erie | 38 min |
| Aug 16, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego | 66 min |
| Aug 16, 4:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 32 min | |
| Aug 16, 6:46 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Lewis | 29 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.