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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 16, 1995Livingston County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 5:48 PM EDT for Livingston County, New York. It was in force for 57 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Jul 16, 1995, 5:48 PM EDT (21:48 UTC)
Expired: Jul 16, 1995, 6:45 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Livingston County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 210 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -94 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 778 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 7 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 18 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 23 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 KBUF 162150 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC051-162245-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
548 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  645 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...LIVINGSTON COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR FROM BUFFALO AND DOPPLER RADAR FROM
BINGHAMTON SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF
MOUNT MORRIS.
 
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.
 
THE STORM WILL MOVE TO NEAR GENESEO AROUND 610 PM...AND TO LIVONIA
AROUND 630 PM.
 
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM.  IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD
PREPARE. FOR DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND
DEADLY LIGHTNING.  PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SHELTER...
PREFERABLY INSIDE A STRONG BUILDING BUT STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
 
 
LAMBERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 16, 6:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario	64 min
Jul 16, 7:16 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	59 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.