Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 20, 1996, 7:43 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 62 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 20, 1996, 7:43 PM EDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- May 20, 1996, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 20, 8:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | North Tonawanda, 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, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 27 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -120 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 972 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 45 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 130 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 202343 SVRBUF NYC063-210045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 743 PM EDT MON MAY 20 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN NEW YORK ...NIAGARA COUNTY AT 735 PM...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER WESTERN LAKE ONTARIO MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THE STORM WILL MOVE ONSHORE NEAR FORT NIAGARA...YOUNSTOWN AND WILSON AND AFFECT OTHER TOWNS OVER THE COUNTY THROUGH 845 PM. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS FROM CANADIAN AUTHORITIES THAT THIS STORM HAS PRODUCED ONE INCH HAIL IN HAMILTON ONTARIO. 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 FLOOnDING 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.