Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 12, 1992, 10:01 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, Erie County, New York. It was in force for 59 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 12, 1992, 10:01 PM EDT (02:01 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 1992, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Erie County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 2.0 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -22 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 569 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 152 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 192 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 130205 SVRBUF NYC009-029-130300- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1001 PM EDT SUN JUL 12 1992 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1100 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NEW YORK ...NORTHERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY...SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY AT 950PM BUFFALO WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE ERIE CATTARAUGUS BORDER JUST EAST OF GOWANDA. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. HAM RADIO OPERATORS REPORT DAMAGE TO A BUILDING AND NUMEROUS TRESS DOWN IN THE TOWN OF FREDONIA DURING THE PAST FEW MINUTES AS THE STORM PASSED THROUGH THAT AREA. 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.
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 12, 8:34 PM EDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
NYZ001-021-022-002-003-004-005-130140- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 825 PM EDT SUN JUL 12 1992 AT 825 PM... A CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS...MANY WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...WAS OVER SOUTHWEST LAKE ONTARIO JUST OFFSHORE THE NIAGARA PENINSULA. ANOTHER CLUSTER OF THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS OVER LAKE ERIE JUST SOUTH OF LONG POINT. THSES STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THE LEADING EDGE OF WHICH RAN FROM PETERBOROUGH ONTARIO SOUTHWEST TO NIAGARA FALLS THEN TO ERIE PENNSYLVANIA. THE ACTIVITY EXTENDED WELL BEHIND THIS EDGE INTO ONTARIO... LAKE ERIE AND OHIO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 55 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE MOVING INTI THE BUFFALO AND NIAGARA FALLS METRO AREAS BY 9PM. PUKAJLO
Special weather statement, Jul 12, 9:33 PM EDT, 28 minutes before
NYZ001-021-022-002-003-004-005-130240- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 925 PM EDT SUN JUL 12 1992 AT 925 PM... THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE ALONG THE CHATAUQUA COUNTY SHORELINE...JUST EAST OF LOCKPORT...ALONG THE NIAGARA AND ORLEANS COUNTY SHORELINES FROM OLCOTT TO LYNDONVILLE AND OVER SOUTHWEST CATTARAUGUS COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A LARGE AREA OF NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THAT COVERED ALL OF WESTERN NEW YORK WEST OF THE GENESEE RIVER...THE WESTERN TWO THIRDS OF LAKE ONTARIO...EASTERN LAKE ERIE... WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND SOUTHERN ONTARIO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH LOCALLY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WILL BE MOVING THROUGH PARTS OF ERIE...NIAGARA...GENESEE AND ORLEANS COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PUKAJLO
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.