Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 17, 1995Monroe County, Orleans County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 17, 1995, 1:25 AM EDT for Monroe County, Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 80 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 17, 1995, 1:25 AM EDT (05:25 UTC)
Expired
Jul 17, 1995, 2:45 AM EDT
In force
80 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Monroe County, NY, Orleans County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 71 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 1995-07-17Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 205 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 1995-07-17The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 27 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
205 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1326 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
20 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
77 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 170529
SVRBUF
NYC073-055-170645-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
125 AM EDT MON JUL 17 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  245 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...MONROE AND ORLEANS COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES
 
 
AT 125 AM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS LOCATED IN WESTERN ORLEANS COUNTY
FROM LYNDONVILLE TO MEDINA MOVING EAST AT 30 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL PASS
THROUGH MOST OF COUNTY BETWEEN 125 AND 145 AM. THE STORM WILL MOVE
ACROSS MONROE COUNTY BY 245 AM.
 
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.
 
 
GURNEY/LAMBERT

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 16, 10:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua67 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1995Every 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.