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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 15, 1995Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 4:30 AM EDT for Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 60 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 15, 1995, 4:30 AM EDT (08:30 UTC)
Expired: Jul 15, 1995, 5:30 AM EDT
In force: 60 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 8.5 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-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: 3272 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -150 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 979 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 207 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 5.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 150833 RRC
SVRBUF
NYC051-055-117-150930-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
430 AM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...LIVINGSTON COUNTY...MONROE COUNTY...WAYNE COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES
 
 
AT 430 AM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM ROCHESTER TO
EASTERN WYOMING COUNTY. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST AT OVER 50 MPH
AND WILL MOVE ACROSS MONROE...LIVINSTON...AND WAYNE COUNTIES BETWEEN 430
AND 530 AM.
 
THESE STORMS ARE PARTICULARLY SEVERE AND HAVE A HISTORY OF DAMAGING
WINDS.
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55
MPH...DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.
FOR YOUR PROTECTION MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR
OF YOUR HOME OR B^USINESS.  HEAVY RAINS FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY SO
DON'T DRIVE INTO AREAS WHERE WATER COVERS THE ROAD.
 
MCLAUGHLIN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 15, 4:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Monroe	60 min
Jul 15, 4:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	60 min
Jul 15, 5:02 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario	58 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1995 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1995

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.