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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 21, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 15, 1994Cayuga County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1994, 4:54 PM EDT for Cayuga County, New York. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1994, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1994, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
36 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Cayuga County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 1994-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1994-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 48 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
769 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
88 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 KBGM 152052
SVRBGM
NYC011-152130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
454 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
 
   ...SOUTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT TO ENTER CAYUGA COUNTY.
 
THE STORM WILL MOVE JUST SOUTH OF THE NEW YORK STATE THRUWAY...AND
WILL BE JUST NORTH OF AUBURN BY 515 PM.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
 
DELLICARPINI

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 5:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga, Onondaga57 min
Jul 15, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga37 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.