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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 13, 1995Erie County, Genesee County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 13, 1995, 8:22 PM EDT for Erie County, Genesee County, New York. It was in force for 68 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 13, 1995, 8:22 PM EDT (00:22 UTC)
Expired
Jul 13, 1995, 9:30 PM EDT
In force
68 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.4 hours before the alert went out and 18 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 637 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 00:00Z on 1995-07-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -34 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
637 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-83 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1465 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-34 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
102 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 13, 8:22 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOrleans68 min
Jul 13, 8:49 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFNiagara56 min
Jul 13, 10:05 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus, Wyoming55 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.