Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1995

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 56, NWS Buffalo, NY

November 28, 1995Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 28, 1995, 1:40 AM EST for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 35 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Nov 28, 1995, 1:40 AM EST (06:40 UTC)
Expired
Nov 28, 1995, 2:15 AM EST
In force
35 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 6.7 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1995-11-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 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 00:00Z on 1995-11-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 71 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
500 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
36 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
71 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
81 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 280643 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC029-280715-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
140 AM EST TUE NOV 28 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  215 AM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED AN AREA OF VERY STRONG
THUNDERSTORMS ENTERING SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY. THESE STORMS ARE
MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND LIKELY CONTAIN STRONG DAMAGING
WINDS...HEAVY RAIN AND POSSIBLY SOME HAIL.
 
THE COMMUNITIES OF BOSTON...COLDEN...AND EAST AURORA WOULD LIKELY
BE AFFECTED BY THESE THUNDERSTORMS BY 2 AM. AREAS FURTHER NORTHEAST
SUCH AS ELMA AND LANCASTER MAY ALSO BE AFFECTED.
 
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.
 
 
JP/RSH
&

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1995Every 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.