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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 24, 1995Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 1995, 4:48 PM EDT for Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 72 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 1995, 4:48 PM EDT (20:48 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
In force
72 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 80 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 1995-05-24Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1995-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 149 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
740 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
39 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
149 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
199 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 242051
SVRBUF
NYC003-009-242200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
448 PM EDT WED MAY 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...ALLEGANY COUNTY...CATTARAUGUS COUNTY
 
RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM SALAMANCA
TO BRADFORD MOVING EAST AT 60 MILES AN HOUR. THESE STORMS WILL MOVE
ACROSS OR NEAR THE COMMUNITIES OF OLEAN BY 530 PM AND WELLSVILLE BY 600
PM.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...
AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS.
STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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.