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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 6, 1995Cayuga County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 6, 1995, 4:01 PM EDT for Cayuga County, New York. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 6, 1995, 4:01 PM EDT (20:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 6, 1995, 5:00 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Cayuga County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.0 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 KBGM 062000 RRA
SVRBGM
NYC011-062100-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY
401 PM EDT THU JUL 6 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  500 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION......
 
IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
 
   ...SOUTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY
 
DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM READY TO ENTER SOUTHERN
CAYUGA COUNTY. THIS STORM WILL BE NEAR AURORA AND UNION SPRINGS BY
410 PM...AUBURN...MORAVIA AND LOCKE BY 430 PM. THIS STORM DOWNED
TREES AND TELEPHONE POLES ACROSS YATES COUNTY.
 
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.
 
BRADY
 
&

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, 3:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWayne55 min
Jul 6, 4:10 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga60 min

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.