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Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Cattaraugus County, New York, 2021

25 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2021. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Cattaraugus County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
25
Busiest month
July9 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
June 9, 20213 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

14 of 25 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Cattaraugus County in 2021 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 11 of 13 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 28 minutes after it went out.

Cattaraugus County, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings251444%1385%28 min

Each office's whole area, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Buffalo, NY: severe thunderstorm warnings1147633%22093%27 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Eastern Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 26, 2:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF43 min
Jun 9, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF43 min
Jun 9, 3:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF57 min
Jun 9, 5:56 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF33 min
Jun 20, 6:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF35 min
Jun 21, 12:17 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF43 min
Jun 21, 3:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF53 min
Jun 28, 6:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF66 min
Jun 29, 2:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF56 min
Jul 1, 7:49 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF56 min
Jul 7, 6:47 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF58 min
Jul 13, 5:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF52 min
Jul 13, 5:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF63 min
Jul 17, 3:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF44 min
Jul 20, 8:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF62 min
Jul 20, 8:39 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF53 min
Jul 20, 11:29 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF61 min
Jul 29, 10:15 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF60 min
Aug 11, 6:09 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF51 min
Aug 11, 7:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF59 min
Aug 13, 10:51 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF39 min
Sep 12, 11:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatBUF75 min
Sep 12, 11:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF86 min
Sep 13, 11:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF44 min
Oct 21, 5:09 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUF33 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.