Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 15, 1996Allegany County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1996, 5:26 PM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 64 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 15, 1996, 5:26 PM EDT (21:26 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 1996, 6:30 PM EDT
In force: 64 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Allegany County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:28 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, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 93 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

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 152127
SVRBUF
NYC003-152230-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
526 PM EDT THU AUG 15 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 630 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...ALLEGANY COUNTY
 
...AT 523 PM EDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF FRANKLINVILLE IN CATTARAUGUS
COUNTY...MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.  THIS STORM WILL MOVE TO NEAR
FRIENDSHIP...HOUGHTON AND ANGELICA BETWEEN 545 AND 6 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 RAPID
FLOODING OF SMALL STREAMS AND POOR DRAINAGE AREAS. DON'T ATTEMPT TO
CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS.

TUCKER

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

Local storm report, Aug 15, 5:08 PM EDT, 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NEW YORK
500 PM EDT THU AUG 08 1996

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

0320 PM    CORFU                     NY   HAIL...DIME SIZED
08/15/96   GENESEE
0400 PM    MINA (NR PA BORDER)       NY   WIND DAMAGE
08/15/96   CHAUTAUQUA                     TREE DOWN ACROSS ROAD

0440 PM    ATTICA                    NY   WIND DAMAGE
08/15/96   WYOMING                        NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

0434 PM    COLLINS                   NY   WIND DAMAGE
08/15/96   ERIE                           TREE FELL ON CAR

0440 PM    ARCADE                    NY   WIND DAMAGE
08/15/96   WYOMING                        NUMEROUS TREES DOWN

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, 3:27 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, 5:58 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.