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Tornado Warning 6, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 28, 1994Erie County, Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Aug 28, 1994, 12:48 PM EDT for Erie County, Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 28, 1994, 12:48 PM EDT (16:48 UTC)
Expired
Aug 28, 1994, 1:45 PM EDT
In force
57 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Erie County, NY, Niagara County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 5 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 1994-08-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 498 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°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 1994-08-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 277 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
498 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-133 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
915 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
277 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
322 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
2.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 281647
TORBUF
NYC029-063-281745-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1248 PM EDT SUN AUG 28 1994
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  145 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY...SOUTHERN NIAGARA COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES
 
 
RADAR AT 1245 INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO NEAR TONAWANDA IN EXTREME
NORTHWEST ERIE COUNTY.
 
THE STORM IS MOVING RAPIDLY TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH.
 
TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE LOCKPORT...AND GETZVILLE.
 
 
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.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM SITUATION.  ACT QUICKLY.  IF YOU ARE
IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO MOVE TO A SHELTER BELOW GROUND IF
AVAILABLE.  OTHERWISE... GO TO A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE.  AVOID WINDOWS.  ABANDON CARS AND MOBILE HOMES
FOR A REINFORCED BUILDING OR GET INTO A DITCH OR CULVERT.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 28, 12:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie, Niagara100 min
Aug 28, 12:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOrleans100 min
Aug 28, 12:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua67 min
Aug 28, 1:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee, Wyoming61 min
Aug 28, 1:41 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFCattaraugus64 min
Aug 28, 2:18 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua, Erie57 min
Aug 28, 2:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga68 min
Aug 28, 3:02 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus58 min
Aug 28, 3:23 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany, Wyoming67 min
Aug 28, 3:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany57 min
Aug 28, 4:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus, Erie55 min
Aug 28, 4:26 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFAllegany, Wyoming49 min
Aug 28, 6:11 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie64 min
Aug 28, 6:34 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFErie41 min
Aug 28, 6:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWyoming46 min
Aug 28, 7:34 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga56 min

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.