Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 18, 1996Ontario County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 18, 1996, 7:19 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 56 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: May 18, 1996, 7:19 PM EDT (23:19 UTC)
Expired: May 18, 1996, 8:15 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Ontario County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 118 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 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: 1309 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -96 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 700 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 50 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 266 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 281 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 6.9

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 182319
SVRBUF
NYC069-190015-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
719 PM EDT SAT MAY 18 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 815 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...ONTARIO COUNTY
 
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT 715 PM EDT SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM NEAR THE TOWN OF SHORTSVILLE...IN NORTHWEST ONTARIO
COUNTY.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 40 TO 45 MPH.

THIS STORM WILL AFFECT CLIFTON SPRINGS AND GENEVA BETWEEN 720
AND 750 PM.
 
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 18, 6:53 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	62 min
May 18, 7:08 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga	62 min
May 18, 7:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	33 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1996 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.