Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 19, 1996, 1:35 AM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 90 min. 2 reports 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 19, 1996, 1:35 AM EDT (05:35 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 19, 1996, 3:05 AM EDT
- In force
- 90 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 05:38 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 19, 2:30 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayville, NY | |
| Jul 19, 2:45 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Kennedy, 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, 5.6 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
- 5 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -196 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1034 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 40 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 69 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 190536 SVRBUF NYC013-NYZ520-521-190705- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 135 AM EDT FRI JUL 19 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 305 AM EDT IN WESTERN NEW YORK FOR ...CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY AND FOR THE NEAR SHORE WATERS OF LAKE ERIE FROM... ...RIPLEY TO SILVER CREEK DOPPLER RADAR FROM BUFFALO AT 130 AM EDT SHOWED AN AREA OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE EASTERN WATERS OF LAKE ERIE...FROM LONG POINT CANADA SOUTH TO ERIE PENNSYLVANIA. THE THUNDERSTORMS WERE MOVING TO THE EAST SOUTHEAST AT 35 TO 40 MILES AN HOUR...AND WILL MOVE INTO WESTERN PORTIONS OF THE COUNTY AROUND 150 AM...AND NEAR JAMESTOWN BY 215 AM. 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. BOATERS SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR IMMEDIATELY. IF POSSIBLE...REMAIN BELOW DECK TO AVOID THE THREAT OF LIGHTNING. STRONG...GUSTY WINDS AND HIGH WAVES MAY QUICKLY CAPSIZE YOUR CRAFT. BOATS IN PORT ARE ADVISED NOT TO VENTURE OUT UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. LAMBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 4:04 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 3 hr |
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.