Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 8, 1996, 1:33 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 57 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
- Aug 8, 1996, 1:33 PM EDT (17:33 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 8, 1996, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 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 17:35 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 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
- 1268 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1001 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 90 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 72 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 081734 SVRBUF NYC013-081830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 133 PM EDT THU AUG 8 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 230 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN NEW YORK ...CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY AT 125 PM...BUFFALO DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER THE CENTRAL PORTION OF CHAUTAUQUA LAKE NEAR BEMUS POINT. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR AND SHOULD PASS ABOUT MIDWAY BETWEEN JAMESTOWN AND SINCLAIRVILLE TO NEAR CHERRY CREEK BY 215 PM. THIS STORM PRODUCED WIND DAMAGE NEAR THE VILLAGE OF STEDMAN. 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. MCLAUGHLIN
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Aug 8, 9:48 AM EDT, 3 hours 45 minutes 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
Local storm report, Aug 8, 10:14 AM EDT, 3 hours 19 minutes before
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.The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 8, 8:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Monroe, Orleans | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 8:23 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Monroe, Orleans | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 10:34 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Wayne | 2 hr |
| Aug 8, 12:35 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 55 min |
| Aug 8, 2:39 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 81 min |
| Aug 8, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara, Orleans | 75 min |
| Aug 8, 5:03 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Niagara | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 5:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 88 min |
| Aug 8, 5:12 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Orleans | 88 min |
| Aug 8, 5:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 58 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.