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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 15, 1994Cayuga County, Onondaga County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1994, 5:33 PM EDT for Cayuga County, Onondaga County, New York. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1994, 5:33 PM EDT (21:33 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1994, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Onondaga County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.6 hours before the alert went out and 189 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°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 152131
SVRBGM
NYC067-011-152230-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
533 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...S...
 
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
 
   ...SOUTHWESTERN ONONDAGA COUNTY...SOUTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN OWASCO AND SKANEATLES LAKES
BETWEEN 530 AND 600 PM. THE STORM WILL BE NEAR THE SOUTH END OF
SKANEATLES LAKE BY 615 PM.
 
STRONG WINDS WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM HAVE DOWNED TREES AND WIRES IN
MONTEZUMA AND AUBURN BETWEEN 500 AND 520 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 bAREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
DELLICARPINI
 
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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, Jul 15, 5:33 PM EDT, 0 minutes before
NYZ001>008-010>014-019>021-152300-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO, NY
525 AM EDT WED JUL 13 1994

       ...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PARTS OF THE REGION...

AT 525 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE LOCATED
OVER ORLEANS COUNTY...20 MILES WEST OF SYRACUSE...20 MILES NORTH OF PENN
YAN...10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BATH...10 MILES NORTH OF ELMIRA...OVER
PENNSYLVANIA ABOUT 30 MILES SOUTH OF MCKEAN AND POTTER COUNTIES AND OVER
ONTARIO JUST SOUTH OF LAKE SIMCOE.

MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.

THESE STORMS CONTAIN A LOT OF HEAVY RAIN AND DUE TO THEIR FAIRLY SLOW
MOVEMENT AREAS IN THERE PATH WILL RECIEVE HEAVY DvOWNPOURS THAT ARE
LIKELY TO CAUSE POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. ELSEWHERE...SKIES WILL BE
VARIABLY CLOUDY WITH TEMPERATURES MAINLY IN THE 70S AND A MODERATE TO
STRONG SOUTHWEST WIND.

PUKAJLO

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga36 min
Jul 15, 6:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga37 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1994Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1994

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.