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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 5, 1995Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 5, 1995, 1:00 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 88 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jul 5, 1995, 1:00 PM EDT (17:00 UTC)
Expired
Jul 5, 1995, 2:28 PM EDT
In force
88 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 20 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 1995-07-05Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1289 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 1995-07-05The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 73 square meters per square second.1939Sfc1 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
1289 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-26 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
711 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 5, 5:25 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFNiagara65 min

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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.