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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 40, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 16, 1995Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 16, 1995, 7:16 PM EDT for Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 59 min.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Jul 16, 1995, 7:16 PM EDT (23:16 UTC)
Expired
Jul 16, 1995, 8:15 PM EDT
In force
59 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Wayne County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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-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

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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, 6:26 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOntario64 min

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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.