Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 24, 1995Genesee County, Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1995, 5:07 PM EDT for Genesee County, Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jun 24, 1995, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 24, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force: 68 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Genesee County, NY, Wyoming County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 41 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 2 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -39 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 918 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 5 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 2 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 21 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 242109 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC037-121-242215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
507 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...GENESEE COUNTY...WYOMING COUNTY
 
AT 500 PM BUFFALO WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM
IN WESTERN GENESEE COUNTY AND ANOTHER IN WYOMING COUNTY NEAR BEAVER
MEADOW, BOTH STORMS ARE MOVING NORTH OR NORTHWEST.
 
SOME OF THE STORMS MAY CONTAIN VERY HEAVY RAINS PRODUCING POOR DRAINAGE
FLOODING AS WELL AS HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND POSSIBLE DAMAGING
WINDS WINDS.  REMEMBER THAT A THUNDERSTORM COULD PRODUCE A FUNNEL CLOUD
OR TORNADO.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
EGR

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 24, 4:38 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee, Wyoming	67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.