Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1993
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 16, 1993, 3:50 AM EDT for Allegany County, Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 40 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 16, 1993, 3:50 AM EDT (07:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 16, 1993, 4:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allegany County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 69 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
- 17 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -186 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2592 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 42 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 155 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 188 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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, Apr 15, 10:37 PM EDT, 5 hours 13 minutes before
NYZ001-021-022-160900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - WIND ADVISORY AND THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1030PM EDT THU APR 15 1993 ...WIND ADVISORY IN EFFECT FOR THE CENTRAL WESTERN COUNTIES...WESTERN SOUTHERN TIER AND WESTERN LAKE ONTARIO COUNTIES... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A WIND ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT FOR THE CENTRAL WESTERN COUNTIES...WESTERN SOUTHERN TIER AND WESTERN LAKE ONTARIO COUNTIES. WINDS OF 20 TO 30 MPH WITH GUSTS OVER 40 MILES AN HOUR ARE EXPECTED OVERNIGHT. LOW PRESSURE IS LOCATED NEAR CHICAGO AND A COLD FRONT EXTENDS SOUTH ACROSS INDIANA AND KENTUCKY. AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT IS A STRONG SOUTHERLY FLOW OF WARM AIR WHICH IS CAUSING SOME HIGH WIND GUSTS OVER OHIO. A PEAK WIND GUST TO 51 MPH WAS REPORTED AT CLEVELAND EARLIER THIS EVENING. THE STRONGEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED OVER HIGHER ELEVATIONS WHERE GUSTS TO 45 MILES AN HOUR ARE POSSIBLE. IF YOU HAVE ANY LOOSE ITEMS YOU MAY WANT TO BRING THEM IN TONIGHT. MOTORISTS ARE ADVISED TO DRIVE WITH CAUTION ESPECIALLY IF YOU ARE DRIVING HIGH PROFILE VEHICLES ON EAST...WEST ROADS. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE ALSO EXPECTED TO ACCOMPANY THE GUSTY WINDS OVERNIGHT AND FRIDAY. LISTEN TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR RADAR SUMMARIES WHICH WILL DESCRIBE THE LOCATION AND MOVEMENT OF THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE REGION. PACE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 16, 2:15 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 60 min |
| Apr 16, 2:35 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 65 min |
| Apr 16, 3:18 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 57 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1993Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1993
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.