Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 1994
Tornado Warning 7, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Aug 28, 1994, 1:41 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 64 min.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 28, 1994, 1:41 PM EDT (17:41 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 28, 1994, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cattaraugus County, NY
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 281740 TORBUF NYC009-281845- BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 141 PM EDT SUN AUG 28 1994 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 245 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NEW YORK ...CATTARAUGUS COUNTY RADAR AT 135 PM EDT INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO OVER NORTHWEST CATTARAUGUS COUNTY NEAR THE TOWN OF DAYTON. MOVEMENT WAS RAPIDLY TO THE EAST AT 50 MPH. TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM ARE CATTARAUGUS AND FRANKLINVILLE. IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO THE BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM OR HALLWAY AND GET UNDER A STURDY PIECE OF FURNITURE. MOBILE HOMES AND AUTOS OFFER LITTLE SHELTER FROM TORNADOES. 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, 12:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 57 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, 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
Tornado Warnings in New York, 1994Every tornado warning in 1994Tornadoes in 1994
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.