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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 12, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 3, 1995Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 3, 1995, 2:22 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jun 3, 1995, 2:22 PM EDT (18:22 UTC)
Expired
Jun 3, 1995, 3:20 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Niagara County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 27 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 1995-06-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 6 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 1995-06-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 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
6 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-23 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
506 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
8 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
26 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 031824 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC063-031920-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
222 PM EDT SAT JUN 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  315 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...NIAGARA COUNTY
 
AT 220 PM WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NIAGARA
COUNTY ABOUT 15 MILES NORTHWEST OF LOCKPORT. THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT
20 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PASS ACROSS THE AREA NORTH OF LOCKPORT TO
MIDDLEPORT DURING THE NEXT HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A
STRONG BUILDING.  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND...
HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND HEAVY DOWNPOURS WHICH MAY CAUSE
LOCALIZED FLOODING. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.
 
NIZIOL

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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.