Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 22, 1996Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 22, 1996, 7:43 AM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 107 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
Jun 22, 1996, 7:43 AM EDT (11:43 UTC)
Expired
Jun 22, 1996, 9:30 AM EDT
In force
107 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Erie County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 11:45 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 00:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 20 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-22Temperature 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 00:00Z on 1996-06-22The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 11 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1395 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
11 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
2 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 221142
SVRBUF
NYC029-NYZ521-522-221315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
743 AM EDT SAT JUN 22 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 930 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...ERIE COUNTY
 
AT 730 AM...DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
THE NIAGARA PENINSULA MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MILES AN HOUR. THIS STORM
WILL MOVE ACROSS THE WATERS OF NORTHEAST LAKE ERIE AND WILL MOVE
ONSHORE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF BUFFALO AND LANCASTER 800 AND 815
AM. OTHER TOWNS IN THE PATH OF THE STORM ARE...WEST SENECA...HAMBURG
AND ORCHARD PARK.
 
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.

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 22, 10:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe, Orleans60 min
Jun 22, 11:30 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLivingston, Ontario60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1996Every 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.