Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 8, 1994, 5:03 PM EDT for Monroe County, Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 57 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 8, 1994, 5:03 PM EDT (21:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 8, 1994, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 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 12:00Z, 9.1 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
- 97 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -29 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1100 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 225 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 082102 RRA SVRBUF NYC055-073-082200- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 503 PM EDT THU SEP 8 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 600 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S... IN NEW YORK ...MONROE COUNTY...ORLEANS COUNTY AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES RADAR AT 500 PM SHOWED POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING ACROSS ORLEANS COUNTY INTO MONROE COUNTY. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST AT 35 MPH. HAIL HAS BEEN REPORTED WITH SIMILAR THUNDERSTORMS DURING THE PAST FEW HOURS. IN ADDITION...FREQUENT CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN WILL ACCOMPANY THESE STORMS. 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. 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, Sep 8, 3:57 PM EDT, 1 hour 6 minutes before
NYZ002-003-004-014-082100-
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORMS
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
354 PM THU SEP 8 1994
...THUNDERSTORMS MOVING THROUGH THE ROCHESTER AREA...
A THUNDERSTORM WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...1/4 INCH HAIL...WINDS GUSTING
TO 51 MPH AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING PASSED OVER THE ROCHESTER AIRPORT
AT 335 PM. THIS STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH
EASTERN MONROE...WAYNE AND NORTHERN ONTARIO COUNTIES IN THE NEXT HOUR.
OTHER STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE OVER SOUTHERN ORLEANS COUNTY. THESE
STORMS WERE ALSO MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR.
BE ON THE ALERT FOR STRONG GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...HEAVY
RAIN AND POSSIBLY HAIL. THE HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO CAUSE SOME POOR
DRAINAGE FLOODING.
IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
PACESpecial weather statement, Sep 8, 4:20 PM EDT, 43 minutes before
NYZ001-002-003-004-011-014-082130- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT - THUNDERSTORMS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 415 PM THU SEP 8 1994 ...THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE ACROSS THE NORTHERN COUNTIES... AT 410 PM...SEVERAL STRONG THUNDERSTORMS WERE IN AN AREA ABOUT 20 MILES WIDE WHICH EXTENDED ACROSS NIAGARA...SOUTHERN ORLEANS...NORTHERN GENESEE... AND MONROE COUNTIES. THE STRONGEST STORMS...WITH SMALL HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS...WERE NEAR LEWISTON IN NIAGARA COUNTY...AND BERGEN IN EASTERN GENESEE COUNTY. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE ABOVE MENTIONED COUNTIES THROUGH 6 PM. A VERY STRONG STORM WITH HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 51 MPH AFFECTED ROCHESTER JUST BEFORE 4 PM...AND MORE STORMS WILL CROSS THE GREATER ROCHESTER AREA DURING THE NEXT HOUR OR TWO. BE ON THE ALERT FOR THREATENING WEATHER AND BE PREPARED TO TAKE SHELTER IF A CONDITIONS WARRANT. MCLAUGHLIN
Nearby
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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.