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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 11, 1995Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 11, 1995, 8:34 AM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 56 min.

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The facts

Issued
Aug 11, 1995, 8:34 AM EDT (12:34 UTC)
Expired
Aug 11, 1995, 9:30 AM EDT
In force
56 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Chautauqua County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 1995-08-11Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1420 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 1995-08-11The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 66 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
1420 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-22 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
710 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
66 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
73 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.3
Supercell composite
1.9

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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.