Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY

March 25, 1996Livingston County, Monroe County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 25, 1996, 6:09 PM EST for Livingston County, Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 66 min. 2 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.

The facts

Issued: Mar 25, 1996, 6:09 PM EST (23:09 UTC)
Expired: Mar 25, 1996, 7:15 PM EST
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Livingston County, NY, Monroe County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 84 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:12 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 25, 6:50 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Rochester, NY
Mar 25, 6:58 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind 50	Dansville, NY

NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.2 hours before the alert went out and 81 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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 2836 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 31 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 365 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 357 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 
WUUS1 KBUF 252308 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC051-055-260015-
 
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
609 PM EST MON MAR 25 1996
 
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL  715 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...S...
 
IN  NEW YORK
 
   ...NORTHERN LIVINGSTON COUNTY...MONROE COUNTY
 
AND THE ADJACENT LAKE WATERS
 
 
DOPPLER RADAR FROM BUFFALO SHOWED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS MOVING
RAPIDLY EAST INTO WESTERN MONROE AND NORTHWEST LIVINGSTON COUNTY.
 
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE TO A ROCHESTER...AVON LINE BY 620 PM.
 
MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 55 MILES AN HOUR.
 
NUMEROUS DOWNED POWER LINES AND POWER OUTAGES HAS OCCURRED FURTHER WEST
...IN THE BATAVIA AND BUFFALO AREAS...AS THIS LINE PASSED THROUGH.
 
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.
 
 
 
LAMBERT

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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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.