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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 49, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 3, 1995Monroe County, Orleans County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 2:57 PM EDT for Monroe County, Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 63 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 1995, 2:57 PM EDT (18:57 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 1995, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 63 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 12:00Z, 7.0 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-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: 920 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -66 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 821 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 74 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 94 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 1.5

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 031858 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC055-073-032000-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
257 PM EDT THU AUG 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  400 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...WESTERN MONROE COUNTY...EASTERN ORLEANS COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES
 
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE INDICATED BY RADAR OVER EASTERN
ORLEANS COUNTY MOVING SLOWLY NORTHEAST.
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELEC
TRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
SAGE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 3:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	65 min
Aug 3, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga	67 min
Aug 3, 4:39 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BUF	Wayne	36 min
Aug 3, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	66 min
Aug 3, 5:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee, Monroe, Orleans	59 min
Aug 3, 5:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wyoming	65 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.