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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 6, 1995Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 3:35 PM EDT for Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 55 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1995, 3:35 PM EDT (19:35 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1995, 4:30 PM EDT
In force
55 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 141 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 1995-07-06Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 463 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 1995-07-06The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 65 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
463 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-25 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
65 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
47 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 061937 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC117-NYZ507-062030-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
335 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  430 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES
 
 
AT 335 PM BUFFALO WEATHER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR
VICTOR IN ONTARIO COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING NORTH NORTHEAST AT 45
MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS WESTERN WAYNE COUNTY NEAR MACEDON
AND PALMYRA AND THEN CONTINUE TO THE LAKE ONTARIO SHORE BEFORE 400PM.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
ALL MARINE INTERESTS ALONG THE WAYNE COUNTY SHORE OF LAKE ONTARIO
SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND SMALL BOATS SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.
 
PACE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 6, 1:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany65 min
Jul 6, 2:08 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLivingston52 min
Jul 6, 3:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe, Ontario60 min
Jul 6, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga59 min
Jul 6, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga60 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.