Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 54, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 25, 1996Lewis County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1996, 7:01 PM EDT for Lewis County, New York. It was in force for 64 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
Jul 25, 1996, 7:01 PM EDT (23:01 UTC)
Expired
Jul 25, 1996, 8:05 PM EDT
In force
64 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Lewis County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALB), launched 12:00Z, 11.0 hours before the alert went out and 179 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-07-25Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 20 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-07-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 104 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
20 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-140 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
864 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
129 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 252301
SVRBUF
NYC049-260005-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
701 PM EDT THU JUL 25 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 805 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTH NEW YORK

   ...SOUTHERN LEWIS COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY DOPPLER RADAR AT 655 PM OVER
EXTREME EASTERN OSWEGO COUNTY SOUTHEAST OF REDFIELD. IT WAS MOVING
NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF WINDS OVER 50 MPH.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH
AND/OR HAIL 3/4 INCH OR LARGER. FOR YOUR PROTECTION FROM
POTENTIALLY DAMAGING nWINDS...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.

SAGE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 25, 6:37 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOswego43 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.