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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 34, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 30, 1992Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 1992, 12:45 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 30, 1992, 12:45 PM EDT (16:45 UTC)
Expired
Aug 30, 1992, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1992-08-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1992-08-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 312 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1324 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
312 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
392 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 301654 COR
SVRBUF
NYC029-301745-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1250 PM EDT SUN AUG 30 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 145 PM EDT.
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING NEW YORK COUNTIES...

                   ERIE COUNTY NEARBY COASTAL WATERS

AT 1245 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED IN ONTARIO CANADA
ABOUT 10 MILES WEST OF BUFFALO AND MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

BE ON THE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT
LIGHTNING...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.  LOCALLY HEAVY
RAIN MAY ALSO CAUSE DRAINAGE FLOODING.
REMEMBER...A THUNDERSTORM IS ALSO CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.
IN HOMES A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM IS THE SAFEST LOCATION.

EGR

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 30, 11:00 AM EDT, 1 hour 45 minutes before
NYZ001-021-002-301600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1055 AM EDT SUN AUG 30 1992

AT 1055 AM...BUFFALO RADAR DETECTED THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN
NORTHEAST OF BUFFALO NEAR CLARENCE. SOME PEA SIZE HAIL WAS REPORTED
IN THE AMHERST AREA.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.

THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST INTO ORLEANS AND NORTHERN
GENESEE COUNTIES DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

THESE TfHUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING
...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL.

PACE
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 12:26 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
NYZ001-021-022-002-301800-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1225 PM EDT SUN AUG 30 1992

AT 1225 PM...BUFFALO RADAR DETECTED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY
RAIN OVER NORTHERN ERIE AND SOUTHERN NIAGARA COUNTY. THESE THUNDERSTORMS
WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND WERE PART OF A LINE OF
THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING SOUTHWEST OVER LAKE ERIE TO NEAR DUNKIRK.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FRETQUENT LIGHTNING
...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL. THESE THUNDERSTORMS SHOULD MOVE
THROUGH THE BUFFALO... NIAGARA FALLS AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR.

PACE
Special weather statement, Aug 30, 12:37 PM EDT, 8 minutes before
NYZ001-021-022-002-002-003-004-005-301745

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1225 PM EDT SUN AUG 30 1992

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT FOR ALL OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL
NEW YORK UNTIL 7 PM

AT 1225 PM...A LINE OF SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH
VERY HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL...EXTENDED IN A 50 MILE
WIDE LINE FROM 30 MILES NORTH OF WATERTOWN NEW YORK SOUTHWEST ACROSS
EASTERN AND SOUTH CENTRAL LAKE ONTARIO...THROUGH MUCH OF ORLEANS...GENESEE
...SOUTHERN NIAGARA AND MUCH OF ERIE COUNTIES...THE NIAGARA PENINSULA THEN
ALONG THE LAKE ERIE SHORELINE INTO NORTHEAST OHIO. VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND
HAIL HAVE BEEN REPOxRTED WITH SOME OF THESE STORMS.

MOVEMENT OF THE LINE WAS SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR.

PUKAJLO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 30, 1:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee60 min

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.