Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Buffalo, NY

Issued

Aug 8, 1992, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)

Expired

Aug 8, 1992, 6:00 PM EDT

In force

60 min

Issued by

NWS Buffalo, NY

Area

Whole counties

Counties Chautauqua County, NY, Erie County, 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.

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TTAA00 KBUF 082101
SVRBUF
NYC013-029-082200-

BULLETIN  EBS ACTIVATION  REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
500 PM EDT SAT AUG 8 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING NEW YORK
COUNTIES...

                  ERIE AND CHAUTAUQUA

AT 500 PM TWO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE LOCATED WEST OF THE ABOVE
COUNTIES. ONE WAS JUST EAST OF THE CITY OF ERIE PENNSYLVANIA MOVING EAST
AT 45 MILES AN HOUR. THE OTHER THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER LAKE ERIE WEST OF
ANGOLA. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR. DIME
SIZED HAIL WAS REPORTED NEAR ERIE PENNSYLVANIA.

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.

REMINGTON

In the hours before

NYZ001-021-022-002-003-004-005-082145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
445 PM EST SAT AUG 8  1992

DO NOT USE AFTER 6 PM...

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF THE WESTERN
COUNTIES...THE WESTERN FINGERLAKES REGION AND THE CENTRAL SOUTHERN
TIER COUNTIES OF WESTERN NEW YORK UNTIL 11 PM TONIGHT...

AT 425 PM... A LINE OF THUNDERSTORMS... SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND
GUSTY WINDS WAS LOCATED IN SOUTHERN ONTARIO. THE LINE STRETCHED FROM
THE SOUTERH END OF LAKE SIMCOE...SOUTH TO THE WEST OF TORONTO TO NEAR
HAMILTON. THE LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MILES AN HOUR.

TWO THUNDERSTORMS...ALSO WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WERE
OVER EASTERN LAKE ERIE. THE FIRST WAS OVER LONG POINT...WHILE THE SECOND
WAS ALONG THE LAKE SHORE  OVER ERIE PENNSYLVANIA. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE
MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.

ELSEWHERE... A 100 MILE WIDE AREA OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
COVERED MUCH OF WESTERN NEW YORK EAST OF THE GENESSE RIVER TO NEAR
SYRACUSE AND BINGHAMTOM. SHOWERS WERE ALSO DETECTED NEAR BRADFORD
PENNSYLVANIA AND OVER WESTERN LAKE ONTARIO.

MOVEMENT WAS NORTHEAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.

KUHL

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992

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.