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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 6, 1994Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1994, 8:33 AM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1994, 8:33 AM EDT (12:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1994, 9:30 AM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 20 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 12:00Z on 1994-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 362 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 12:00Z on 1994-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 45 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
362 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-132 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1159 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS1 KBUF 061234 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC029-061330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
833 AM EDT WED JUL 6 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  930 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES
 
 
AT 830 AM BUFFALO WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY BETWEEN BUFFALO AND LOCKPORT. THE STORM WAS MOVING
SOUTHEAST AT 35 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.
 
PACE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 8:02 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFNiagara43 min
Jul 6, 2:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus67 min
Jul 6, 3:11 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFAllegany64 min
Jul 6, 3:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany64 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.