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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 9, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 14, 1995Cattaraugus County, Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 14, 1995, 4:47 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, Erie County, New York. It was in force for 58 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 14, 1995, 4:47 PM EDT (20:47 UTC)
Expired
May 14, 1995, 5:45 PM EDT
In force
58 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Erie County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 47 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 1995-05-14Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1995-05-14The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 319 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1330 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
319 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
310 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 142050
SVRBUF
NYC009-029-142145-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
447 PM EDT SUN MAY 14 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
EFFECTIVE UNTIL  545 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...CATTARAUGUS COUNTY...ERIE COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES
 
AT 445 PM...A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS EXTENDED FROM NEAR PORT
COLBORNE SOUTH OVER LAKE ERIE TO NEAR ANGOLA AND THEN SOUTH INTO
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY TO CHAUTAUQUA LAKE NEAR MAYVILLE. DIME SIZE HAIL
HAS BEEN REPORTED IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY NEAR STOCKTON. THESE STORMS
WILL MOVE THROUGH ERIE COUNTY DURING THE NEXT HOUR...AND INTO
CATTARAUGUS BY 500 PM.
 
A TORNADO WATCH IS ALSO IN EFFECT FOR THE WARNED AREA.  REMEMBER
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE TORNADOES
WITH LITTLE OR NO ADVANCE WARNING.  REMAIN CALM BUT BE ALERT TO
RAPIDLY CHANGING WEATHER CONDITIONS.
 
GURNEY

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 14, 4:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua62 min

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.