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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 28, 1994Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1994, 12:53 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 1994, 12:53 PM EDT (16:53 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1994, 2:00 PM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Chautauqua County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 91 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1994-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 498 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1994-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 277 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 12:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie, Niagara100 min
Aug 28, 12:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOrleans100 min
Aug 28, 12:48 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFErie, Niagara57 min
Aug 28, 1:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee, Wyoming61 min
Aug 28, 1:41 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFCattaraugus64 min
Aug 28, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua, Erie57 min
Aug 28, 2:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga68 min
Aug 28, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus58 min
Aug 28, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany, Wyoming67 min
Aug 28, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany57 min
Aug 28, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus, Erie55 min
Aug 28, 4:26 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFAllegany, Wyoming49 min
Aug 28, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie64 min
Aug 28, 6:34 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFErie41 min
Aug 28, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWyoming46 min
Aug 28, 7:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga56 min

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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.