Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1991

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 7, 1991Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1991, 11:43 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 77 min. 1 report 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: Jul 7, 1991, 11:43 PM EDT (03:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 1991, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 77 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Erie County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 8, 12:55 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 0	Erie, 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 00:00Z, 3.7 hours before the alert went out and 20 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: 1662 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1057 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 140 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.5
Supercell composite: 3.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 080348
SVRBUF
NYC029-080500-
 
BULLETIN - IMMEDIATE BROADCAST REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1143 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 1991
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 100 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING COUNTY...
 
IN  NEW YORK
          ...ERIE
 
AT 1139PM A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER LAKE ERIE...ABOUT 35
MILES WEST OF BUFFALO. THEY ARE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 55 MPH. THE
STORMS PRODUCED 70 MPH WINDS WHEN THEY MOVED ACROSS ERIE PENNSYLVANIA
AT 1115PM.
 
STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS AND STAY OFF THE TELEPHONE WHEN THE
THUNDERSTORM ARRIVES. IF POWER LINES FALL DOWN..DON/T TOUCH THEM.
REMEMBER...LIGHTN;ING IS ONE OF THE THUNDERSTORMS BIGGEST KILLERS.
IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...FIND SUITABLE SHELTER.
 
 
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What 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, Jul 7, 10:35 PM EDT, 1 hour 8 minutes before

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1025 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 1991

THUNDERSTORMS WILL RUMBLE ACROSS PARTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK OVERNIGHT...

NOCTURNAL THUNDERSTORMS MAY ONCE AGAIN STARTLE WESTERN NEW YORKERS DURING
THE "WEE" HOURS...MUCH AS THEY DID SATURDAY NIGHT. AT 10PM A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS STRECTHED ACROSS LAKE ERIE...WEST OF CLEVELAND. THEY WERE
MOVING TO THE EAST-SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. IF THEY HOLD TOGETHER...THEY WILL
ENTER WESTERN NEW YORK BETWEEN 1 AND 3AM.

THE STORMS PRODUCED WINDS OF OVER 60MPH AS THEY MOVED ACROSS LOWER
MICHIGAN AND NORTHERN INDIANA. THOUGH THEY SHOW SOME SIGNS OF
WEAKENING...THEY COULD STILL PRODUCE HIGH WINDS AND TORRENTIAL RAIN
OVER PARTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK. THE SOUTHERN TIER COUNTIES ARE THE
MOST LIKELY PLACES TO SEE HIGH WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN OVERNIGHT.

BECAUSE THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE MOVING QUITE FAST...FLOODING
DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A THREAT AT THIS TIME. YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE WILL FOLLOW THE MOVEMENT OF THE STORMS AND THEIR ASSOCIATED
RAINFALL DURING THE NIGHT...AND WILL ISSUE FURTHER STATEMENTS AS
NECESSARY.

IF YOU HAVE ANY LIGHT WEIGHT ARTICLES OUTSIDE...SUCH AS PATIO
FURNITURE AND GARBAGE CANS...YOU MAY WANT TO BRING THEM IN BEFORE
YOU RETIRE TONIGHT. LISTEN TO YOUR TV OR RADIO STATION FOR THE LATEST
INFORMATION. IF YOU HAVE A WEATHER RADIO...SET THE TONE ALERT FEATURE
SO YOU WILL BE INSTANTLY ALERTED TO SEVERE WEATHER IF IT DOES OCCVUR.

END
RM/ER

The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 7, 11:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	68 min
Jul 8, 12:10 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	65 min
Jul 8, 12:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wyoming	65 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1991 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1991

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.