Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1994
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 25, 1994, 7:10 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 65 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Sep 25, 1994, 7:10 PM EDT (23:10 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 25, 1994, 8:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 65 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, 11.2 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 726 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 35 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 70 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 76 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
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 25, 6:20 PM EDT, 50 minutes before
NYZ019-503-252330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 620 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 620 PM SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN ERIE COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH....AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY NEAR FINDLEY LAKE BY 630 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BOATERS ON CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND LAKE ERIE SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY AS THIS THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING HOURS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LAMBERT
Special weather statement, Sep 25, 6:21 PM EDT, 49 minutes before
NYZ019-503-252330- SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 620 PM EDT SUN SEP 25 1994 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS MOVING INTO CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR AT 620 PM SHOWED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN ERIE COUNTY IN PENNSYLVANIA. THE STORMS WERE MOVING TO THE NORTH-NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH....AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY NEAR FINDLEY LAKE BY 630 PM. PERSONS IN THE PATH OF THESE STORMS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER INDOORS...AWAY FROM WINDOWS. BOATERS ON CHAUTAUQUA LAKE AND LAKE ERIE SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY AS THIS THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES. KEEP TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR OTHER LOCAL RADIO AND TV STATIONS THROUGHOUT THE EVENING HOURS FOR LATER STATEMENTS AND POSSIBLE WARNINGS. LAMBERT
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.