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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 15, 1995Ontario County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 15, 1995, 5:02 AM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 15, 1995, 5:02 AM EDT (09:02 UTC)
Expired
Jul 15, 1995, 6:00 AM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Ontario County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 114 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 1995-07-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 3272 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 1995-07-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 141 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
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 150904 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC069-151000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
502 AM EDT SAT JUL 15 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...ONTARIO COUNTY
 
AT 500 AM...RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WHICH
EXTENDED FROM WAYNE TO LIVINGSTON COUNTY. THIS LINE WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST
AT 60 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL RACE ACROSS ONTARIO COUNTY BETWEEN 500 AND
600 AM.
 
THESE STORMS ARE ESPECIALLY DANGEROUS 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 BUSINESS.  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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 15, 4:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLivingston, Monroe60 min
Jul 15, 4:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWayne60 min
Jul 15, 4:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus, Chautauqua60 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.