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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY

September 2, 1993Cattaraugus County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Sep 2, 1993, 8:09 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 51 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Sep 2, 1993, 8:09 PM EDT (00:09 UTC)
Expired
Sep 2, 1993, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
51 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Cattaraugus County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 1993-09-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 873 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 1993-09-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 177 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
873 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-40 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
832 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
177 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.8
Supercell composite
5.7

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 030013
TORBUF
NYC009-030100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
809 PM EDT THU SEP 2 1993
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  900 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...CATTARAUGUS COUNTY
 
AT 810PM A TORNADO WAS REPORTED OVER WARREN COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA NEAR
STARBROOK. IT WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHWESTERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY NEW YORK
SHORTLY. PERSONS IN SOUTHWEST CATTARAUGUS COUNTY SHOULD TAKE COVER
IMMEDIATELY IF SEVERE WEATHER APPRAOCHES. GO TO YOUR BASEMENT OR THE
INTERIOR PART OF THE LOWEST LEVEL OF YOUR HOUSE. ABANDON MOBILE HOMES.
 
 
BE ON THE ALERT FOR TORNADOES OR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY
FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.  LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO CAUSE DRAINAGE FLOODING.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Sep 2, 8:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua67 min
Sep 2, 9:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany47 min
Sep 2, 10:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany47 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.