Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 3, 1995Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 3, 1995, 4:54 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 66 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 1995, 4:54 PM EDT (20:54 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 1995, 6:00 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Erie County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.9 hours before the alert went out and 20 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 032056 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC029-032200-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
454 PM EDT THU AUG 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  600 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES
 
 
AT 453 PM EDT WEATHER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER SOUTHERN
ERIE COUNTY. THIS STORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 3O MILES AN HOUR.
 
 
 
 
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.

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 3, 2:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe, Orleans	63 min
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, 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.