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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 25, 1994Erie County, Genesee County, Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Aug 25, 1994, 3:14 PM EDT for Erie County, Genesee County, Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 31 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 25, 1994, 3:14 PM EDT (19:14 UTC)
Expired
Aug 25, 1994, 3:45 PM EDT
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY, Niagara County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.2 hours before the alert went out and 13 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 1994-08-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 242 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 1994-08-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 255 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
242 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-105 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
677 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
16 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
255 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
264 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.3

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 25, 7:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe, Orleans67 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.