Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 55, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 30, 1996Niagara County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 30, 1996, 5:07 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 63 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 30, 1996, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
Expired
Jul 30, 1996, 6:10 PM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Niagara County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 27 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 12:00Z on 1996-07-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 331 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1996-07-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 107 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
331 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-15 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
758 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
107 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
123 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.6

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 302107
SVRBUF
NYC063-NYZ523-524-302210-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
507 PM EDT TUE JUL 30 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 610 PM
EDT FOR NIAGARA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK AND THE ADJACENT WATERS OF
LAKE ONTARIO
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS REPORTED OVER WHEATFIELD NEW YORK IN NIAGARA
COUNTY AT 5 PM. GOLF BALL SIZE HAIL...BROKEN TREE LIMBS AND 60 MPH
GUSTS ACCOMPANIED THIS STORM.
 
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.

SAGE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 30, 6:21 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe59 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.