Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1992
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 30, 1992, 1:00 PM EDT for Genesee County, New York. It was in force for 60 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 30, 1992, 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 30, 1992, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Genesee County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 42 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KBUF 301701
SVRBUF
NYC037-301800-
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING CORRECTION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
100 PM EDT SUN AUG 30 1992
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM EDT.
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING NEW YORK COUNTIES...
GENESEE
AT 100 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS INDICATED BY BUFFALO RADAR
OVER NORTHWEST GENESEE COUNTY AND WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
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.
JJPWhat 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, 2 hours 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, 34 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, 23 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 12:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1992Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1992
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.