Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Buffalo, NY
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.
- 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
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 &
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.
PUKAJLOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 15, 4:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga | 36 min |
| Jul 15, 6:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga | 37 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.