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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 15, 1996Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1996, 3:27 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 73 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, 3:27 PM EDT (19:27 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 1996, 4:40 PM EDT
In force: 73 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Erie County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 15, 4:34 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Collins, 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, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 20 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 151931 COR
SVRBUF
NYC029-NYZ521-152040-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING AND SPECIAL MARINE WARMING...CORRECTED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
327 PM EDT THU AUG 15 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING UNTIL 440 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY...INCLUDING THE NEAR SHORE
      WATERS OF LAKE ERIE FROM SILVER CREEK NORTHEAST TO BUFFALO

 NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT 325 PM SHOWED SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS FROM NEAR SILVER CREEK IN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY...SOUTHWEST
ALONG THE LAKE ERIE SHORE.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
 
THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN HALF OF ERIE COUNTY...
AFFECTING HAMBURG...ORCHARD PARK...AND EAST AURORA BETWEEN 345 AND
415 PM.

THESE STORMS WILL ALSO AFFECT THE ERIE COUNTY FAIR GROUNDS BY 4 PM.
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 RAPI2D
FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. DON'T ATTEMPT TO
CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.

BOATERS ON LAKE ERIE SOUTHWEST OF BUFFALO SHOULD SEEK SAFE HARBOR
IMMMEDIATELY.

LAMBERT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 2:46 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	59 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1996 Every 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.