Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 6, NWS Buffalo, NY
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28, 12:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 100 min |
| Aug 28, 12:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 100 min |
| Aug 28, 12:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 67 min |
| Aug 28, 1:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Wyoming | 61 min |
| Aug 28, 1:41 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 64 min |
| Aug 28, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua, Erie | 57 min |
| Aug 28, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga | 68 min |
| Aug 28, 3:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 58 min |
| Aug 28, 3:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany, Wyoming | 67 min |
| Aug 28, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 57 min |
| Aug 28, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Erie | 55 min |
| Aug 28, 4:26 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Allegany, Wyoming | 49 min |
| Aug 28, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 64 min |
| Aug 28, 6:34 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Erie | 41 min |
| Aug 28, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 46 min |
| Aug 28, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga | 56 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.