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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 51, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 3, 1995Cayuga County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 4:23 PM EDT for Cayuga County, New York. It was in force for 67 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Aug 3, 1995, 4:23 PM EDT (20:23 UTC)
Expired
Aug 3, 1995, 5:30 PM EDT
In force
67 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Cayuga County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 173 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 1995-08-03Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 920 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 1995-08-03The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 74 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
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 032025 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC011-075-032130-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
423 PM EDT THU AUG 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  530 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...NORTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY...WESTERN OSWEGO COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES
 
 
BUFFALO WEATHER RADAR AND OTHER NEARBY DOPPLER RADARS DETECT SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS OVER EASTERN WAYNE COUNTY. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF
LARGE TREE LIMBS AND POWER LINES DOWN WITH THESE STORMS AS THAY PASSED
THROUGH WAYNE COUNTY.
 
THESE STORMS WERE MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD CROSS
NORTHERN CAYUGA AND WESTERN OSWEGO COUNTY BETWEEN 430 AND 530 PM.
 
 
WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...PEOPLE SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A
STRONG BUILDING.  DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS.  DON'T USE TELEPHONES
OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES UNLESS IN AN EMERGENCY UNTIL THE STORM
HAS PASSED.  MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
 
PACE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 3, 2:57 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe, Orleans63 min
Aug 3, 3:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe65 min
Aug 3, 4:39 PM EDTTornado WarningBUFWayne36 min
Aug 3, 4:54 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie66 min
Aug 3, 5:01 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee, Monroe, Orleans59 min
Aug 3, 5:25 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWyoming65 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.