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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 13, 1995Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1995, 7:40 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 65 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 13, 1995, 7:40 PM EDT (23:40 UTC)
Expired: Jul 13, 1995, 8:45 PM EDT
In force: 65 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, 11.7 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-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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1520 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 23 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 144 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 175 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 13, 4:00 PM EDT, 3 hours 40 minutes before

NYZ001>008-010>014-019>021-140900-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT  -HEAT WAVE-
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
400 PM EDT THU JUL 13 1994

...HEAT WAVE TO REACH WESTERN NEW YORK TONIGHT AND CONTINUE INTO
SATURDAY...

HOT HUMID WEATHER IS EXPECTED FOR WESTERN NEW YORK TONIGHT THROUGH
FRIDAY NIGHT.

TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO RISE INTO THE MID AND UPPER 90S AT MANY
LOCATIONS THIS FRIDAY. THE EXCEPTION WILL BE NEAR THE LAKES ERIE
AND ONTARIO SHORELINES WHERE READINGS WILL HOLD IN THE 80S.

DEWPOINTS TO AROUND 70 WILL MAKE THE AIR QUITE HUMID.

TEMPERATURES TONIGHT AND FRIDAY NIGHT ARE EXPECTED TO BE IN THE 70S
WITH VERY HIGH HUMIDITY. TEMPERATURES SATURDAY ARE EXPECTED IN THE
MID 80S TO NEAR 90.

IT APPEARS THAT IT WILL BE QUITE UNCOMFORTABLE AND THE HEAT INDEX
...WHICH USES THE TEMPERATURE AND HUMIDITY TO GIVE AN APPARENT
TEMPERATURE ON THE BODY...SHOWS A POSSIBLE 105 DEGREES OR VERY HOT
ESPECIALLY FRIDAY.

TRY TO STAY OUT OF THE SUN AND SLOW DOWN FROM STRENUOUS ACTIVITIES.

KEEP OUT OF DIRECT EXPOSURE TO THE SUNLIGHT.

DRINK LOTS OF WATER OR OTHER NON ALCOHOL BEVERAGES.

STAY IN AIR CONDITIONED AREAS OR AREAS WITH FANS.

WEAR LIGHT WEIGHT...LIGHT COLORED CLOTHING.

SENIOR CITIZENS AND THOSE WITH PROBLEMS WITH HIGH HEAT AND HUMIDITY
SHOULD REFRAIN FROM EXPOSURE TO THE SUN.

KEEP PETS COOL WITH FRESH WATER AND SHADE.

EGR

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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.