Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1994, 6:38 PM EDT for Cayuga County, New York. It was in force for 37 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 15, 1994, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 15, 1994, 7:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 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, 10.6 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.
- 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 152235 SVRBGM NYC011-152315- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 638 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 715 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...... IN CENTRAL NEW YORK ...SOUTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED ANOTHER SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY AT 635 PM. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR SUMMERHILL BY 645 PM...AND WILL MOVE INTO CORTLAND COUNTY BY 655 PM. IT WILL REACH HOMER AND CORTLAND AROUND 715 PM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND..8.LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. 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, 1 hour 5 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.
PUKAJLOSpecial weather statement, Jul 15, 6:13 PM EDT, 25 minutes before
NYZ001>002-010-011-152315-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO, NY
610 PM EDT FRI JUL 15 1994
...FEW THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING NORTH OF BUFFALO THIS EVENING...
AT 610 PM...RADAR SHOWED A FEW NEWLY DEVELOPED THUNDERSTORMS JUST TO
THE WEST OF LOCKPORT...EXTENDING TO THE NORTHEAST NEAR MEDINA.
MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 20 MILES AN HOUR.
THESE STORMS WILL CONTAIN SOME HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN ALONG WITH
DANGEROUS CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING. WINDS GUSTS TO OVER 35 MPH ARE
ALSO POSSIBLE.
PERSONS OUTDOORS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS
AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
LAMBERTSpecial weather statement, Jul 15, 6:28 PM EDT, 10 minutes before
NYZ001>008-010>014-019>021-160000-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO, NY
625 AM EDT WED JUL 13 1994
...THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUED ACROSS PARTS OF THE REGION...
AT 625 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY TO VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE LOCATED
OVER NORTHERN ERIE AND SOUTHERN AND EASTERN NIAGARA COUNTIES....FROM 10
MILES SOUTHWEST TO 20 MILES WEST OF SYRACUSE AND FROM 10 MILES NORTH TO
15 MILES NORTHEAST OF ELMIRA. AN ISOLATED THUNDERSTOEM WITH VERY HEAVY
RAIN WAS OVER ONTARIO 25 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PETERBOROUGH.
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 DOWNPOURS 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, 5:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Onondaga | 57 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.