Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 11, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 10, 1996Ontario County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 1996, 5:16 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 64 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 10, 1996, 5:16 PM EDT (21:16 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 1996, 6:20 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Ontario County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
May 10, 5:25 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Gorham, 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, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 114 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: 586 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 24 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 123 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 116 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 102116
SVRBUF
NYC069-102220-

BULLTIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
516 PM EDT FRI MAY 10 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 620 PM EDT
AND A FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 620 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST NEW YORK

   ...ONTARIO COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR FROM BUFFALO AT 512 PM SHOWED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM LOCATED JUST EAST OF CANANDAIGUA...ALONG AND SOUTH
OF ROUTE 20.

THE STORM WILL AFFECT THE TOWNS OF GENEVA...GORHAM...AND RUSHVILLE
BEFORE 620 PM.

THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES PER HOUR.
 
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.


LAMBERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 9, 8:45 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	2 hr
May 10, 4:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Erie, Genesee, Wyoming	94 min
May 10, 4:26 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	94 min
May 10, 5:16 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Ontario	64 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.