Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1989

Tornado Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY

October 14, 1989Orleans County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Oct 14, 1989, 4:53 PM EDT for Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 43 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Oct 14, 1989, 4:53 PM EDT (20:53 UTC)
Expired: Oct 14, 1989, 5:36 PM EDT
In force: 43 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.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Oct 14, 5:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Orleans, NY
Oct 14, 5:00 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 78	Orleans, NY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in. Storm Data before 1996 records only tornadoes, thunderstorm wind and hail.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 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.

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 142056 COR
TORBUF
NYC063-073-142200-

BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
453 PM EDT SAT OCT 14 1989

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING
COUNTIES

   IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK
      EASTERN NIAGARA...ORLEANS

AT 445 PM A FUNNEL CLOUD WAS REPORTED BY THE PUBLIC AT NEWFANE IN
NIAGARA COUNTY.  LARGE TREES AND MANY POWER LINES WERE DOWNED.
THE STORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 60 MILES AN HOUR.

...... TAKE  SHELTER IMMEDIATELY ....

BE ON THE ALERT FOR TORNADOES OR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY
FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG DAMAGING WIND AND LARGE HAIL.  LOCALLY
HE+AVY RAIN MAY ALSO CAUSE DRAINAGE FLOODING.
.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO THE BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR
ROOM OR HALLWAY AND GET UNDER A STURDY PIECE OF FURNITURE.  MOBILE
HOMES AND AUTOS OFFER NO SHELTER.

 NIZIOL

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	Niagara	67 min
Oct 14, 5:06 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee	69 min
Oct 14, 6:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Orleans	68 min

Nearby

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.