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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 25, 1994Cayuga County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1994, 2:43 PM EDT for Cayuga County, New York. It was in force for 47 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 25, 1994, 2:43 PM EDT (18:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1994, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 47 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, 6.7 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 91 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1176 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 46 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 126 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

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

Local storm report, Jul 25, 10:30 AM EDT, 4 hours 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO
1030 AM EDT MON JUL 25 1994

...STORMS FROM SUN JULY 24TH AND MONDAY JULY 25TH

SUNDAY JULY 24TH
250 PM  LARGE TREE LIMB DOWN FROM THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN THE TOWN OF
        CARROLTON IN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY REPORTED BY POWER COMPANY.

MONDAY JULY 25TH
745 AM  DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR IN THE TOWN OF
        EDEN IN SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY.

TAN

Local storm report, Jul 25, 10:37 AM EDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO
1030 AM EDT MON JUL 25 1994

...STORMS FROM SUN JULY 24TH AND MONDAY JULY 25TH

SUNDAY JULY 24TH
250 PM  LARGE TREE LIMB DOWN FROM THUNDERSTORM nWINDS IN THE TOWN OF
        CARROLTON IN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY REPORTED BY POWER COMPANY.

MONDAY JULY 25TH
745 AM  DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR IN THE TOWN OF
        EDEN IN SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY.

TAN

Local storm report, Jul 25, 11:10 AM EDT, 3 hours 33 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT  ... UPDATED ...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO
1115 AM EDT MON JUL 25 1994

...STORMS FROM SUN JULY 24TH AND MONDAY JULY 25TH

SUNDAY JULY 24TH
250 PM  LARGE TREE LIMB DOWN FROM THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN THE TOWN OF
        CARROLTON IN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY REPORTED BY POWER COMPANY.

MONDAY JULY 25TH
330 AM GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL AND LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN WITHIN A SWATH
       150 FEET WIDE ON FERRIER ROAD IN EDEN NEW YORK REPORTED BY
       THE PUBLIC.

745 AM  DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR IN THE TOWN OF
        EDEN IN SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY.

TAN/SFM

Local storm report, Jul 25, 11:15 AM EDT, 3 hours 28 minutes before

PRELIMINARY STORM REPORT  ... UPDATED ...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO
1115 AM EDT MON JUL 25 1994

...STORMS FROM SUN JULY 24TH AND MONDAY JULY 25TH

SUNDAY JULY 24TH
250 PM  LARGE TREE LIMB DOWN FROM THUNDERSTORM WINDS IN THE TOWN OF
        CARROLTON IN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY REPORTED BY POWER COMPANY.

MONDAY JULY 25TH
330 AM GOLF BALL SIZED HAIL AND LARGE TREE LIMBS DOWN WITHIN A SWATH
       150 FEET WIDE ON FERRIER ROAD IN EDEN NEW YORK REPORTED BY
       THE PUBLIC.

745 AM  DIME SIZE HAIL REPORTED BY HAM RADIO OPERATOR IN THE TOWN OF
        EDEN IN SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY.

TAN/SFM

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 3:22 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	68 min
Jul 25, 7:26 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	64 min
Jul 25, 1:28 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	62 min
Jul 25, 2:27 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Orleans	63 min
Jul 25, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Orleans	63 min
Jul 25, 2:34 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga	56 min
Jul 25, 3:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany	66 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1994 Every 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.