Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 25, 1994, 7:23 AM EDT for Monroe County, Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 67 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 25, 1994, 7:23 AM EDT (11:23 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 25, 1994, 8:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Monroe County, NY, Orleans County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 1772 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 14 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 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 251137 COR SVRBUF NYC055-073-251230- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 723 AM EDT THU AUG 25 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN NEW YORK ...MONROE COUNTY...EASTERN ORLEANS COUNTY AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES AT 720 AM BUFFALO WEATHER RADAR OBSERVERD HEAVY THUNDERSTORM OVER EASTERN ORLEANS COUNTY MOVING INTO MONROE COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WERE MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH AND MAY ALSO GO OUT INTO LAKE ONTARIO. BE ON THE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO CAUSE DRAINAGE FLOODING. EGR
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, Aug 25, 2:25 AM EDT, 4 hours 58 minutes before
NYZ001>008-010>014-019>021-250800-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
225 AM EDT THU AUG 25 1994
...THUNDERSTORMS NEARING WESTERN NEW YORK...
AT 225 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE LOCATED JUST
WEST OF WELLAND...A FEW MILES EAST OF HAMILTON AND JUST AT THE TIP OF
LONG POINT ONTARIO. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A 60 MILE WIDE AREA OF
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WESTERN LAKE ONTARIO
SOUTHWEST ACROSS NIAGARA COUNTY...THE NIAGARA PENINSULA...THEN CONTINUING
SOUTHWEST ALONG LAKE ERIE INTO EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO. ANOTHER CLUSTER
OF SHOWERS...SOME HEAVY...WAS LOCATED ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN LONDON AND
HAMILTON ONTARIO. A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS WERE OVER WESTERN CATTARAUGUS
COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING POOR DRAINAGE
FLOODING...COULD REACH THE BUFFALO AND NIAGARA FALLS AREAS BEFORE 4 AM.
ELSEWHERE...CLOUDS WILL BE INCREASING ACROSS THE AREA WITH TEMPERATURES
MAINLY IN THE 60S AND LIGHT SOUTHERLY WINDS. PUKAJLOSpecial weather statement, Aug 25, 2:37 AM EDT, 4 hours 46 minutes before
NYZ001>008-010>014-019>021-250800-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND SHORT TERM FORECAST
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
225 AM EDT THU AUG 25 1994
...THUNDERSTORMS NEARING WESTERN NEW YORK...
AT 225 AM...THUNDERSTORMS WITH VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS WERE LOCATED JUST
WEST OF WELLAND...A FEW MILES EAST OF HAMILTON AND JUST AT THE TIP OF
LONG POINT ONTARIO. THESE STORMS WERE PART OF A 60 MILE WIDE AREA OF
SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDING FROM WESTERN LAKE ONTARIO
SOUTHWEST ACROSS NIAGARA COUNTY...THE NIAGARA PENINSULA...THEN CONTINUING
SOUTHWEST ALONG LAKE ERIE INTO EXTREME NORTHEAST OHIO. ANOTHER CLUSTER
OF SHOWERS...SOME HEAVY...WAS LOCATED ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN LONDON AND
HAMILTON ONTARIO. A FEW LIGHT SHOWERS WERE OVER WESTERN CATTARAUGUS
COUNTY. MOVEMENT WAS EAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY DOWNPOURS...CAPABLE OF PRODUCING POOR DRAINAGE
FLOODING...COULD REACH THE BUFFALO AND NIAGARA FALLS AREAS BEFORE 4 AM.
ELSEWHERE...CLOUDS WILL BE INCREASING ACROSS THE AREA WITH TEMPERATURES
MAINLY IN THE 60S AND LIGHT SOUTHERLY WINDS. PUKAJLOThe office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 25, 3:14 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Niagara | 31 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.