Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 20, 1996, 8:55 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 50 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
- Apr 20, 1996, 8:55 PM EDT (00:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 20, 1996, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:58 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 9:09 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Ripley, 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, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 91 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
- 324 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -122 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1429 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -7 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 35 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 210055 SVRBUF NYC013-NYZ503-210145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 855 PM EDT SAT APR 20 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 945 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS...... IN NEW YORK ...NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT LAKE ERIE WATERS ...RIPLEY TO SILVER CREEK AT 850 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS NEAR RIPLEY NEW YORK AT THE PENNSYLVANIA LINE AND MOVING NORTHEAST ALONG THE LAKE ERIE SHORE. 3/4 INCH HAIL WAS REPORTED WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN... AND DEADLY LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. BLACKBURN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 20, 9:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 59 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.