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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 28, 1995Cattaraugus County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1995, 5:12 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 28, 1995, 5:12 PM EDT (21:12 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1995, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Cattaraugus County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 9.2 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 1995-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 710 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 1995-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 50 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
710 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-32 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
921 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
50 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
71 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 282115 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC009-282215-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
512 PM EDT FRI JUL 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  615 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...CATTARAUGUS COUNTY
 
PITTSBURGH DOPPLER RADAR AT 510 PM INDICATED POSSIBLE SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS IN MCKEAN COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA MOVING NORTH INTO
CATTARAUGUS COUNTY. THE STORMS MAY CONTAIN STRONG GUSTY WINDS...HAIL AND
POSSIBLE HEAVY RAINS PRODUCING POOR DRAINAGE PROBLEMS.
 
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.
 
EGR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 4:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany59 min
Jul 28, 5:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe47 min
Jul 28, 5:53 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie, Niagara52 min
Jul 28, 6:52 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWayne68 min
Jul 28, 7:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLivingston, Monroe, Ontario35 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.