Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1989
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Oct 14, 1989, 6:07 PM EDT for Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 68 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Oct 14, 1989, 6:07 PM EDT (22:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Oct 14, 1989, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 68 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orleans County, NY
The radar
The WSR-88D network and its archive begin in 1991, so there is no radar volume for this alert.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 2345 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 50 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 103 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 252 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBUF 142207
SVRBUF
NYC073-142315-
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
607 PM EDT SAT OCT 14 1989
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTY
IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK
ORLEANS
AT 600 PM BUFFALO RADAR DETECTED A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN...HAIL AND DAMAGING WINDS OVER LAKE ONTARIO ABOUT 5 MILES
NORTH OF THE ORLEANS COUNTY SHORELINE. THE STORM WAS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 60 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CROSS THROUGH ORLEANS
COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
BE ON THE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING
STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO
CAUSE DRAINAGE FLOODING.
.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.
IN HOMES A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM IS THE SAFEST LOCATION.
NIZIOLWhat forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Oct 14, 2:51 PM EDT, 3 hours 16 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 232 PM EDT SAT OCT 14 1989 DO NOT USE AFTER 4 PM ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW YORK AND ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKES ERIE AND ONTARIO UNTIL 8 PM... SHOWERS WERE WIDELY SCATTERED BETWEEN ANGOLA AND SYRACUSE. A THUNDERSTORM WITH HEAVY RAIN WAS JUST EAST OF LAKE CANANDAIGUA. FURTHER NORTH HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED FROM CENTRAL LAKE HURON TO NEAR LAKE SIMOCE. LIGHT SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED FROM PETERBOROUGH TO 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF KINGSTON. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST AT 55 MILES AN HOUR. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. CHT
Special weather statement, Oct 14, 3:42 PM EDT, 2 hours 25 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 328 PM EDT SAT OCT 14 1989 DO NOT USE AFTER 5 PM ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR WESTERN AND CENTRAL NEW YORK AND ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKES ERIE AND ONTARIO UNTIL 8 PM... SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER A 40 MILE WIDE AREA FROM NORTHERN ORLEANS COUNTY TO 20 MILES SOUTH OF SYRACUSE. A VERY HEAVY STORM WAS 10 MILES NORTH OF ALBION AND ANOTHER WAS 5 MILES EAST OF LAKE CANANDAIGUA. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ALSO CONTINUED OVER ONTARIO SCATTERED FROM CENTRAL LAKE HURON TO THE EASTERN END OF LAKE ONTARIO COVERING A LARGE AREA FROM TORONTO TO PETERBOROUGH. VERY HEAVY THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED 30 TO 45 MILES DUE WEST OF TORONTO. THE PRECIPITATION WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN AND CLOSE TO THE WATCH AREA. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. CHT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 14, 4:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara, Orleans | 63 min |
| Oct 14, 4:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Orleans | 43 min |
| Oct 14, 4:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Niagara | 67 min |
| Oct 14, 5:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee | 69 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1989Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1989
Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.