Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 10, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 9, 1996Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 1996, 7:48 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 52 min. 1 report 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
May 9, 1996, 7:48 PM EDT (23:48 UTC)
Expired
May 9, 1996, 8:40 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Chautauqua County, NY

What was reported inside it

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 9, 8:25 PM EDTThunderstorm WindJamestown, 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, 11.8 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 1996-05-09Temperature 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 1996-05-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 172 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
524 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
172 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
233 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 092349
SVRBUF
NYC013-NYZ520-100040-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
748 PM EDT THU MAY 9 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 840 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
 
AT 740PM DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER EXTREME
SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY ALONG THE STATE LINE NEAR THE TOWNS OF
CLYMER AND PANAMA.

THE STORM WAS MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH AND WILL CROSS THE SOUTHERN
PORTION OF THE COUNTY...SOUTH OF RTE 17 BETWEEN 750 AND 845PM.

THIS SEVERE STORM WAS EMBEDDED IN AN AREA OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
THAT WERE MOVING FROM LAKE ERIE ACROSS CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH
AND/OR HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER. FOR YOUR PROTECTION FROM
POTENTIALLY DAMAGING WINDS...MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. HEAVY RAINS MAY ALSO CAUSE RAPID
FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. DON'T ATTEMPT TO
CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.

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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.