Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 10, 1996Genesee County, Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 10, 1996, 9:23 PM EDT for Genesee County, Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 57 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: Jun 10, 1996, 9:23 PM EDT (01:23 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 1996, 10:20 PM EDT
In force: 57 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Genesee County, NY, Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 44 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:24 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
Jun 10, 10:07 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Bennington, 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 00:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 41 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: 1149 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -73 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 969 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 13 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.8

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 110123
SVRBUF
NYC037-121-110220-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
923 PM EDT MON JUN 10 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1020 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...GENESEE COUNTY
   ...NORTHWESTERN WYOMING COUNTY
 
AT 917 PM EDT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM JUST SOUTHWEST OF ATTICA IN NORTHWEST WYOMING COUNTY.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTH NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

THE STORM WILL MOVE BETWEEN CORFU AND BATAVIA AFFECTING DARIEN LAKES
PARK AND OAKFIELD BETWEEN 920 AND 1020 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
FLOODINGP OF SMALL STREAMS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. DON'T ATTEMPT TO
CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.

REMEMBER...SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS CAN...AND OCCASIONALLY DO PRODUCE
TORNADOES WITH LITTLE ADVANCE WARNING.   

LAMBERT

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jun 10, 8:44 PM EDT, 39 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
837 PM EDT MON JUN 10 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0750 PM    RIPLEY                    NY   HAIL/.88 INCH
06/10/96   CHAUTAUQUA

PACE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 10, 8:14 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	2 hr
Jun 10, 11:00 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie	6 hr
Jun 11, 5:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	58 min
Jun 11, 5:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	53 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.