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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 10, 1992Orleans County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 10, 1992, 9:00 PM EDT for Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 75 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 10, 1992, 9:00 PM EDT (01:00 UTC)
Expired
Aug 10, 1992, 10:15 PM EDT
In force
75 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Orleans County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 1.0 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1992-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 546 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1992-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 87 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 kmRMLM
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
546 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-98 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1132 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
87 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
125 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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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, Aug 10, 8:49 PM EDT, 11 minutes before
NYZ001-021-022-002-003-004-005-110145-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
845 PM EST MON AUG 11 1992

DO NOT USE AFTER 10 PM.

...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS UP FOR MOST OF WESTERN NEW YORK UNTIL
MIDNIGHT...

AT 830 PM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG GUSTY WINDS
AND VERY HEAVY RAIN EXTENDED FROM LONDON NORTHEAST ACROSS HAMILTON TO
WESTERN LAKE ONTARIO AND OVER EASTERN LAKE ONTARIO AND BETWEEN
PETERBOROUGH AND KINGSTON.  SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE ALSO OVER
NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA...CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY AND MUCH OF NEARBY SOUTHERN
ONATRIO.

MOVEMENT ID EAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

RRM

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 10, 9:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie, Genesee55 min
Aug 10, 10:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWyoming70 min
Aug 11, 12:11 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus59 min
Aug 11, 12:20 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWyoming60 min

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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.