Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 28, 1994, 3:02 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 58 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 1994, 3:02 PM EDT (19:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1994, 4:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 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, 7.0 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
- 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 WUUS1 KBUF 281902 RRA SVRBUF NYC009-282000- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 302 PM EDT SUN AUG 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 400 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NEW YORK ...CATTARAUGUS COUNTY RADAR AT 300 PM EDT SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED NEAR JAMESTOWN...IN SOUTHEASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. THE STORM WAS MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE RANDOLPH...SALAMANCA AND OLEAN. BE ON THE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO CAUSE DRAINAGE FLOODING. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. IN HOMES A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM IS THE SAFEST LOCATION. 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, 3 hours 37 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, 3 hours 24 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, 12:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 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, 3:23 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.