Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1994, 12:20 PM EDT for Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 100 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 1994, 12:20 PM EDT (16:20 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1994, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 100 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Orleans County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.3 hours before the alert went out and 55 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
- 498 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -133 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 915 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 49 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 277 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 322 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 281623 RRA SVRBUF NYC029-063-073-503-504-505-281800- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1220 PM EDT SUN AUG 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 200 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS... IN NEW YORK ...ERIE COUTY...NIAGARA COUNTY...ORLEANS COUNTY...INCLUDING THE UPPER NIAGARA RIVER...BUFFALO HARBOR AND ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE AND ONTA O RADAR AT 1220 PM SHOWED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER WESTERN LAKE ONTARIO AND OVER THE NIAGARA PENINSULA...FROM NORTH OF PORT DALHOUSIE SOUTH TO NEAR WELLAND. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH. THESE THUNDERSTORMS WILL LIKELY PRODUCE STRONG WINDS...POSSIBLY IN EXCESS OF 50 KNOTS (58 MPH). BE ON THE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO CAUSE DRAINAGE FLOODING. ALL MARINE INTERESTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND SMALL BOATS TAKE SHELTER IMMEDIATELY. A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA. REMEMBER SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING. REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS. LAMBERT
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 28, 11:25 AM EDT, 55 minutes before
NYZ001>008-010>014-019>021-281600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1125 AM EDT SUN AUG 28 1994 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 784 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM FOR MOST OF NEW YORK WEST OF A LINE FROM WATERTOWN TO ELMIRA. AT 1125 AM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHERN ONTARIO FROM 10 MILES WEST OF TORONTO TO 20 MILES EAST OF DETROIT MICHIGAN. SOME OF THE STORMS BETWEEN LONDON AND TORONTO WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. SHOWERS WERE OVER NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND WESTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR AND SOME SHOULD BE ENTERING WESTERN NIAGARA COUNTY AND NORTHWESTERN ERIE COUNTY BY 1 PM. TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN AREAS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TINGLEY
Special weather statement, Aug 28, 11:38 AM EDT, 42 minutes before
NYZ001>008-010>014-019>021-281600- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT AND RADAR SUMMARY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1125 AM EDT SUN AUG 28 1994 TORNADO WATCH NUMBER 784 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 5 PM FOR MOST OF NEW YORK WEST OF A LINE FROM WATERTOWN TO ELMIRA. AT 1125 AM...SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WERE SCATTERED OVER SOUTHERN ONTARIO FROM 10 MILES WEST OF TORONTO TO 20 MILES EAST OF DETROIT MICHIGAN. SOME OF THE STORMS BETWEEN LONDON AND TORONTO WERE PRODUCING HEAVY RAINS AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. SHOWERS WERE OVER NORTHWESTERN PENNSYLVANIA AND WESTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR AND SOME SHOULD BE ENTERING WESTERN NIAGARA COUNTY AND NORTHWESTERN ERIE COUNTY BY 1 PM. TORNADOES...LARGE HAIL...DANGEROUS LIGHTNING...AND DAMAGING THUNDERSTORM WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN AREAS IN AND NEAR THE WATCH. PERSONS IN THESE AREAS SHOULD BE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THREATENING WEATHER CONDITIONS AND LISTEN FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. TINGLEY
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 12:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 100 min |
| Aug 28, 12:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 57 min |
| Aug 28, 12:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 67 min |
| Aug 28, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Wyoming | 61 min |
| Aug 28, 1:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 64 min |
| Aug 28, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua, Erie | 57 min |
| Aug 28, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga | 68 min |
| Aug 28, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 58 min |
| Aug 28, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany, Wyoming | 67 min |
| Aug 28, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 57 min |
| Aug 28, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Erie | 55 min |
| Aug 28, 4:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Allegany, Wyoming | 49 min |
| Aug 28, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 64 min |
| Aug 28, 6:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Erie | 41 min |
| Aug 28, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 46 min |
| Aug 28, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga | 56 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.