National
Weather Service Buffalo, New York |
Submit a Storm Report to the National Weather Service |
The staff at the Buffalo National Weather Service welcomes your reports of severe weather if you are in our County Warning Area (CWA). Use the form below to send us your storm report. For the information to be of maximum use to us, please submit your report as soon as possible after a severe weather event.
Please limit your submissions to events in which you have witnessed at least one of the following:
Hail: Dime-sized or larger.
Strong and/or Damaging Winds: Wind gusts in excess of 55 mph (Please indicate whether winds were estimated or measured). Wind damage to structures (building, houses, barns, etc.), vehicles or trees.
Tornado: Please be as descriptive as possible (time, location, movement, etc.).
Heavy Rain: 0.50 inches or more in an hour or less; 1.00 inches or more in 12 hours or less; or any event with 2.00 inches or more.
Flooding: Please be as descriptive as possible (water over the road, river out of banks, property damage due to flooding, etc.).
Heavy Snow: 4 or more inches in 24 hours or less. 2 of more inches in 12 hours or less. 1 inch of snow per hour. Click here to learn how to measure snow.
Icing: Any ice accretion (on roads, trees, power lines, etc.).