Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 26, 1994, 7:10 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, Erie County, New York. It was in force for 63 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 26, 1994, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 26, 1994, 8:13 PM EDT
- In force
- 63 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Erie County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 47 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1130 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 196 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 210 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 262319 SVRBUF NYC009-029-270013- BULLETIN EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 710 PM EDT TU APR 26 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 810 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING NEW YORK COUNTIES... ERIE AND CATTARAUGUS AT 710 PM BUFFALO WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BETWEEN SPRINGVILLE AND GOWANDA OVER SOUTHERN ERIE AND NORTHERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY. THIS THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE THROUGH SPRINGVILLE WITHIN THE 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. PACE
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 26, 5:52 PM EDT, 1 hour 18 minutes before
NYZ001>003-010>-013-019>022-272345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO, NY 550PM EDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WESTERN NEW YORK... AT 545 PM...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 25 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM HAMILTON...SOUTH ACROSS LAKE ERIE TO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA NEAR ERIE. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO WESTERN NEW YORK IN THE NEXT HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS SHOULD OCCUR SOUTH OF BUFFALO OVER SOUTHERN ERIE... CHAUTAUQUA AND CATTARAUGUS COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING ...HEAVY RAIN...WHICH MAY CAUSE DRAINAGE FLOODING AND POSSIBLY HAIL. PACE
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 6:04 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
NYZ001>003-010>-013-019>022-262345- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT CORRECTION TIME NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO, NY 600PM EDT TUE APR 26 1994 ...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS APPROACHING WESTERN NEW YORK... AT 545 PM...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 25 MILES WIDE EXTENDED FROM HAMILTON...SOUTH ACROSS LAKE ERIE TO NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA NEAR ERIE. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE INTO WESTERN NEW YORK IN THE NEXT HOUR. THE STRONGEST STORMS SHOULD OCCUR SOUTH OF BUFFALO OVER SOUTHERN ERIE... CHAUTAUQUA AND CATTARAUGUS COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING ...HEAVY RAIN...WHICH MAY CAUSE DRAINAGE FLOODING AND POSSIBLY HAIL. PACE
Special weather statement, Apr 26, 6:40 PM EDT, 30 minutes before
NYZ001>025-270000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO, NY
635PM EDT TUE APR 26 1994
...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH WESTERN NEW YORK...
AT 625 PM...A LINE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ABOUT 25 MILES WIDE
EXTENDED FROM TORONTO...SOUTH ACROSS BUFFALO...AND THEN INTO NORTHWEST
PENNSYLVANIA SOUTH OF ERIE. THE SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING
EAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
THUNDERSTORMS WITH THE HEAVY RAIN...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...
AND POSSIBLE HAIL EXTENDED FROM BUFFALO SOUTH TO SOUTH OF JAMESTOWN.
ALSO...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED TO MOVE EAST OF THE GENESEE
RIVER INTO THE FINGER LAKES.
THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...GUSTY
WINDS...AND POSSIBLE HAIL WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE THROUGH WESTERN NEW
YORK...MAINLY FROM BUFFALO SOUTH. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES...
PLEASE TAKE SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM OR BASEMENT. STAY TUNED TO
NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON THIS WEATHER SITUATION.
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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.