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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 16, 1995Ontario County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 6:26 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 64 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 6:26 PM EDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 7:30 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Ontario County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 210 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 12:00Z on 1995-07-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 18 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
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 162226 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC069-162330-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
626 PM EDT SUN JUL 16 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  730 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...ONTARIO COUNTY
 
AT 623 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR FROM BUFFALO AND DOPPLER
RADAR FROM BINGHAMTON SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHEAST OF
GENESEO...IN LIVINGSTON COUNTY.
 
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
 
THE THUNDERSTORM WILL MOVE INTO ONTARIO COUNTY NEAR THE TOWNS OF
EAST BLOOMFIELD AND HOLCOMB BETWEEN 645 AND 7 PM. THE STORM WILL PASS NEAR
OR JUST NORTH OF CANANDAIGUA BETWEEN 715 AND 730 PM.
 
LIVINGSTON COUNTY SHERIFFS OFFICE REPORTED TREES BLOWN DOWN BY STRONG WINDS
DURING THE PAST HOUR.
 
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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 5:48 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLivingston57 min
Jul 16, 7:16 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWayne59 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.