Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Buffalo, NY

Issued

Aug 8, 1996, 12:35 PM EDT (16:35 UTC)

Expired

Aug 8, 1996, 1:30 PM EDT

In force

55 min

Issued by

NWS Buffalo, NY

Area

Whole counties

County Chautauqua County, NY

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:37 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 081636
SVRBUF
NYC013-081730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1235 PM EDT THU AUG 8 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 130 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
 
AT 1235 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OBSERVED BY DOPPLER RADAR JUST
NORTHEAST OF ERIE PENNSYLVANIA AND 9 MILES WEST OF CLYMER IN
CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY. THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EASTNORTHEAST AT 25
MPH AND WILL EFFECT SOUTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY NEAR SHERMAN AND
CLYMER BY 1 PM EDT.
 
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.

REICH

In the hours before

NYZ001>008-010>014-019>021-081600-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
949 AM EDT THU AUG 8 1996

...LIGHTNING ASSOCIATED WITH THUNDERSTORMS ALONG SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE
ONTARIO CAUSING DAMAGE...

POLICE AGENCIES IN WAYNE COUNTY ALONG THE SOUTH SHORE OF LAKE ONTARIO
HAVE REPORTED NUMEROUS LIGHTNING STRIKES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY. IN
THE TOWN OF ONTARIO THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF LIGHTNING STRIKES
DOWNING TREES AND POWER LINES RESULTING IN SOME FIRES. ALSO LIGHTNING
HAS DOWNED POWER LINES IN THE VILLAGE OF SODUS AND THE TOWN OF
WILLIAMSON.

RADAR INDICATES LOCALIZED HEAVY RAINFALL RATES OF 1.0 TO 1.50 INCHES
PER HOUR OVER PORTIONS OF WAYNE..ORLEANS AND MONROE COUNTY. OTHER
STORMS WITH VERY HEAVY RAIN...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND GUSTY WINDS ARE
OVER THE EASTERN END OF LAKE ERIE AND WILL MOVE INTO ERIE COUNTY AND
THE BUFFALO METRO AREA THROUGH THE REST OF THE MORNING.

PACE

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NEW YORK
1015 AM EDT THU AUG 08 1996

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1010 AM    SODUS                     NY   FLOODING
08/08/96   WAYNE                          WIDESPREAD FLOODING LOW
                                          LYING AREAS...MASSIVE
                                          LIGHTNING DAMAGE

1011 AM    MEDINA                    NY   FLOODING
08/08/96   ORLEANS                        WIDESPREAD
                                          FLOODING...BUSINESSES AND
                                          HOMES. STREETS CLOSED.

1013 AM    ALBION                    NY   FLOODING
08/08/96   ORLEANS                        WIDESPREAD
                                          FLOODING...HOMES AND
                                          BUSINESSES.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1996Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1996

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.