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Tornado Warning 3, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 14, 1994Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 14, 1994, 1:15 AM EDT for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 14, 1994, 1:15 AM EDT (05:15 UTC)
Expired
Jun 14, 1994, 2:15 AM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Wyoming County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 46 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 00:00Z on 1994-06-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 158 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1106 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
38 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
158 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
160 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 140516
TORBUF
NYC121-140615-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
115 AM EDT TUE JUN 14 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...WYOMING COUNTY
 
AT 115 AM BUFFALO RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE
TORNADO JUST NORTH OF ARCADE NEW YORK. THE STORM WAS MOVING ZEAST AT 50
MPH.
 
 
BE ON THE ALERT FOR TORNADOES OR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY
FREQUENT LIGHTNING...STRONG DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL.  LOCALLY
HEAVY RAIN MAY ALSO CAUSE DRAINAGE FLOODING.
 
 
SKARI

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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.