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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 7, 1996Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 7, 1996, 11:52 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 63 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: Jul 7, 1996, 11:52 PM EDT (03:52 UTC)
Expired: Jul 8, 1996, 12:55 AM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:55 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
Jul 8, 12:00 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Sinclairville, 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 19 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -123 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1781 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 95 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 153 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 080352
SVRBUF
NYC009-013-080455-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1152 PM EDT SUN JUL 7 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1255 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST NEW YORK

   ...CATTARAUGUS COUNTY
   ...EASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
 
AT 1145 PM SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING THROUGH CHAUTAUQUA
COUNTY...MOVING EAST AROUND 35 MILES AN HOUR.  THE STORMS WILL PASS
THROUGH SINCLAIRVILLE AND THEN INTO WESTERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY FROM
RANDOLPH TO PERRYSBURG.

TREE LIMBS HAVE BEEN REPORTED DOWN WITH THESE STORMS.  VERY HEAVY RAIN
MAY ALSO CAUSE LOCAL0IZED FLOODING.
 
SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY CONTAIN SMALL HAIL...GUSTY WINDS...FREQUENT
LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO
OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION

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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.