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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 13, 1994Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 13, 1994, 5:30 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 13, 1994, 5:30 PM EDT (21:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 13, 1994, 6:30 PM EDT
In force
60 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, 9.5 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 1994-06-13Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 45 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 1994-06-13The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 131 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
45 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-93 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1207 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
131 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
200 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 132134 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC009-013-121-003-NYZ503-132230-

BULLETIN - EBS AVTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
530 PM EDT MON JUN 13 1994

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......

IN  NEW YORK

   ...CATTARAUGUS...CHAUTAUQUA...ALLEGANY AND WYOMING COUNTIES

AND ADJACENT WATERS OF LAKE ERIE


AT 530 PM...BUFFALO WEATHER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER
CHAUTAUQUA AND CATTARAUGUS AND WESTERN ALLEGANY AND WYOMING COUNTIES.
THESE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING EAST AT 50 MILES AN HOUR.

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.

PACE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 13, 4:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie75 min
Jun 13, 5:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus, Wyoming60 min
Jun 13, 6:02 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFCattaraugus28 min
Jun 13, 6:29 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus61 min
Jun 13, 6:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua57 min
Jun 13, 7:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga43 min
Jun 13, 7:38 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany37 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.