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Tornado Warning 2, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 3, 1995Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Aug 3, 1995, 4:39 PM EDT for Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 36 min.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 3, 1995, 4:39 PM EDT (20:39 UTC)
Expired: Aug 3, 1995, 5:15 PM EDT
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 141 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 032041 RRA
TORBUF
NYC117-NYZ506-032115-
 
BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
439 PM EDT THU AUG 3 1995
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  515 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS......
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...EASTERN WAYNE COUNTY
 
AND ADJACENT WATERS OF THE GREAT LAKES
 
 
A TORNADO WAS DETECTED BY BINGHAMTON DOPPLER RADAR AT 430 PM
OVER EASTERN WAYNE COUNTY. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IS A
BASEMENT.  GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE.
IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER IN AN INTERIOR ROOM
SUCH AS A CLOSET ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.  USE BLANKETS...PILLOWS...
OR CUSHIONS TO COVER YOUR BODY.  AVOID WINDOWS.
 
SAGE

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, 4:54 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	66 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

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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.