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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Buffalo, NY

September 9, 1992Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 9, 1992, 7:10 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 80 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 9, 1992, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
Expired: Sep 9, 1992, 8:30 PM EDT
In force: 80 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Niagara County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 974 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 40 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 79 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 159 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 092312
SVRBUF
NYC063-100030-

BULLETIN  EBS ACTIVATION  REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
710 PM EDT WED SEP 09 1992

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING NEW YORK
COUNTIES...
            NIAGARA AND ADJACENT WATER OF LAKE ONTARIO

AT 710 PM BUFFALO RADAR INDICATED  SEVERE THUNDESTORMS JUST WEST AND
NORTH OF NIAGARA COUNTY.  THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT
45 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.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY.
IN HOMES A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM IS THE SAFEST LOCATION.

LEVAN

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, Sep 9, 6:34 PM EDT, 36 minutes before

NYZ001<005-021-022-100000-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
630 PM EDT WED SEP 9 1992

DO NOT USE AFTER 8 PM EDT.

AT 630 PM...75 MILE WIDE AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WAS OVER
PARTS OF SOUTHERN ONTARIO...WESTERN NEW YORK...EASTERN LAKE ERIE AND
WESTERN LAKE ONTARIO.

THE LEADING EDGE OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM ABOUT 10
MILES EAST OF TORONTO..ACROSS LAKE ONTARIO AND THE NIAGARA PENINSULA
NEAR PORT COLBOURNE...ACROSS LAKE ERIE TO NEAR THE NEW YORK PENNSYLVANIA
BORDER.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.  THE EXTREME
WESTERN PORTIONS OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY ARE EXPERIENCING THE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS NOW.  THE WESTERN PARTS OF ERIE AND NIAGARA COUNTIES...
INCLUDING THE BUFFALO METRO AREA CAN EXPECT THE RAIN TO BEGIN BETWEEN
7 AND 8 PM.

THESE THUNDERSTORMS MAY CONTAIN HEAVY DOWNPOURS... FREQUENT LIGHTNING...
AND GUSTY WINDS.  BE ON TrHE LOOKOUT ... AND IF THREATENING WEATHER
APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER INDOORS.

LEVAN

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.