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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 11, 1992Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1992, 8:50 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 70 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 11, 1992, 8:50 PM EDT (00:50 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 1992, 10:00 PM EDT
In force
70 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Niagara County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.8 hours before the alert went out and 27 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 1992-08-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 122 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 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 1992-08-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 2 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 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
122 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-4 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1142 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 11, 9:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOrleans75 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.