Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 67, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1996, 2:46 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 59 min. 1 report 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
- Aug 15, 1996, 2:46 PM EDT (18:46 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 15, 1996, 3:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 59 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 18:46 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 3:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 | Dunkirk, 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 12:00Z, 6.8 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
- 944 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -125 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1143 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 57 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 49 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 151847 SVRBUF NYC013-NYZ520-151945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 246 PM EDT THU AUG 15 1996 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 345 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN NEW YORK ...CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY AT 240 PM...DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A CLUSTER OF STRONG TO SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ERIE COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA. THEY WERE MOVING TOWARD THE NORTHEAST AT 40 MILES AN HOUR AND WILL MOVE ALONG THE LAKESHORE TO NEAR DUNKIRK AND FREDONIA BY 315 PM. ADDITIONAL STORMS WILL AFFECT THE CENTRAL PORTION OF THE COUNTY BEFORE 330 PM. THESE STORMS MAY BE ACCOPMPANIED BY DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IF A STORM APPROACHES. MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. MCLAUGHLIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 15, 3:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 73 min |
| Aug 15, 3:46 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 59 min |
| Aug 15, 3:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 65 min |
| Aug 15, 4:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Wyoming | 88 min |
| Aug 15, 5:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 58 min |
| Aug 15, 5:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 64 min |
| Aug 15, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 62 min |
| Aug 15, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 60 min |
| Aug 15, 6:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego | 79 min |
| Aug 15, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 88 min |
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.