Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Buffalo, NY

April 22, 1996Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 22, 1996, 12:08 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 62 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: Apr 22, 1996, 12:08 PM EDT (16:08 UTC)
Expired: Apr 22, 1996, 1:10 PM EDT
In force: 62 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 16:09 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
Apr 22, 12:18 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ellicott, 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, 4.1 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.

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: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 1408 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 49 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 136 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 196 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 221606
SVRBUF
NYC013-221710-

BULLETIN - EBS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1208 PM EDT MON APR 22 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 110 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST NEW YORK

   ...CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
 
AT 1150AM DOPPLER RADAR DETECTED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG THE LAKE
ERIE SHORELINE NEAR RIPLEY. A STORM SPOTTER IN RIPLEY REPORTED ONE
HALF INCH HAIL FROM THIS STORM. THE STORM WAS MOVING TOWARD THE
NORTHEAST AT 45 MILES AN HOUR.
 
SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS PRODUCE DAMAGING WIND IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...
DESTRUCTIVE HAIL...FREQUENT LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.  FOR
YOUR PROTECTION MOVE INSIDE.

A SPECIAL MARINE WARNING IS ALSO IN EFFECT FROM RIPLEY TO BUFFALO ALONG
THE LAKE ERIE SHORELINE UNTIL 1:25PM.

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.