Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1994, 4:44 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 61 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1994, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1994, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cattaraugus County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -111 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1379 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 28 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 37 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 79 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 KBUF 182045 RRA SVRBUF NYC009-182145- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 444 PM EDT MON JUL 18 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 545 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NEW YORK ...CATTARAUGUS COUNTY AT 445 PM BUFFALO WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTHERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY BETWEEN ELLICOTTVILLE AND JUST NORTHWEST OF FRANKLINVILLE. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 25 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
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 18, 1:30 PM EDT, 3 hours 14 minutes before
NYZ003-009-013-021-181900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO, NY 130 PM EDT MON JUL 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE GENESEE VALLEY... AT 125 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED FROM EASTERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY...NORTHEAST DOWN THE GENESEE VALLEY TO SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF ROCHESTER. STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NEAR ELLICOTTVILLE AND FRANKLINVILLE...WITH ANOTHER STORM HAVING DEVELOPED RAPIDLY NEAR CHURCHVILLE. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS GREATER ROCHESTER WITHIN THE HOUR...ACCOMPANIED BY TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. OTHER STORMS WERE ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND JUST EAST OF ELMIRA. MOVEMENT OF ALL ACTIVITY WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO ALLEGANY AND LIVINGSTON COUNTIES WITHIN THE HOUR AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH CAN CAUSE FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. MCLAUGHLIN
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 1:40 PM EDT, 3 hours 4 minutes before
NYZ003-009-013-021-181900- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO, NY 130 PM EDT MON JUL 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING INTO THE GENESEE VALLEY... AT 125 PM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS...SOME WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN... EXTENDED FROM EASTERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY...NORTHEAST DOWN THE GENESEE VALLEY TO SOUTHERN MONROE COUNTY JUST SOUTH OF ROCHESTER. STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WERE NEAR ELLICOTTVILLE AND FRANKLINVILLE...WITH ANOTHER STORM HAVING DEVELOPED RAPIDLY NEAR CHURCHVILLE. THIS STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS GREATER ROCHESTER WITHIN THE HOUR...ACCOMPANIED BY TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS. OTHER STORMS WERE ACROSS NORTHWEST PENNSYLVANIA AND JUST EAST OF ELMIRA. MOVEMENT OF ALL ACTIVITY WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE INTO ALLEGANY AND LIVINGSTON COUNTIES WITHIN THE HOUR AND WILL BE ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS WHICH CAN CAUSE FLOODING IN POOR DR^AINAGE AREAS. MCLAUGHLIN
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:25 PM EDT, 19 minutes before
NYZ003-009-013-021-182200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO, NY 425 PM EDT MON JUL 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY... AT 425 PM...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS OVER SPRINGVILLE IN EXTREME SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY. A THUNDERSTORM ALSO WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS JUST SOUTH OF BATH IN STEUBEN COUNTY. HEAVY SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CATTARAUGUS COUNTY...THE FINGER LAKES REGION...OVER THE ELMIRA AREA AND JUST EAST AND SOUTHWEST OF LONDON ONTARIO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM OVER SPRINGVILLE IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DOWNPOURS THAT MAY CAUSE FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. LIKEWISE FOR THE STORM OVER BATH. MOST OF THE REST OF WESTERN NEW YORK WILL BE UNDER VARIABLY CLOUDY SKIES WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 70S TO MID 80S ACCOMPANIED BY HIGH HUMIDITIES. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT...MAINLY FROM THE SOUTHWEST. PUKAJLO
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:27 PM EDT, 17 minutes before
NYZ010-020-12-182200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO, NY 425 PM EDT MON JUL 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS SOUTH OF BUFFALO... AT 425 PM...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY NEAR SPRINGVILLE AND OVER NORTHERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY NORTHWEST OF FRANKLINVILLE. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THES THUNDERSTORMS CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAIN WHICH MAY CAUSE DRAINAGE FLOODING...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLY HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE TO NEAR ARCADE IN WYOMING COUNTY AND NORTHEAST CATTARAUGUS COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR. PACE
Special weather statement, Jul 18, 4:32 PM EDT, 12 minutes before
NYZ003-009-013-021-182200- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO, NY 425 PM EDT MON JUL 18 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING OVER SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY... AT 425 PM...A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...HAIL AND STRONG GUSTY WINDS WAS OVER SPRINGVILLE IN EXTREME SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY. A THUNDERSTORM ALSO WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN WAS JUST SOUTH OF BATH IN STEUBEN COUNTY. HEAVY SHOWERS WERE SCATTERED ACROSS CATTARAUGUS COUNTY...THE FINGER LAKES REGION...OVER THE ELMIRA AREA AND JUST EAST AND SOUTHWEST OF LONDON ONTARIO. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM OVER SPRINGVILLE IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DOWNPOURS THAT MAY CAUSE FLOODING IN POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. LIKEWISE FOR THE STORM OVER BATH. MOST OF THE REST OF WESTERN NEW YORK WILL BE UNDER VARIABLY CLOUDY SKIES WITH TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 70S TO MID 80S ACCOMPANIED BY HIGH HUMIDITIES. WINDS WILL BE LIGHT...MAINLY FROM THE SOUTHWEST. PUKAJLO
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 1:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 67 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.