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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 80, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 15, 1996Cayuga County, Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 1996, 6:41 PM EDT for Cayuga County, Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 79 min. 4 reports 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, 6:41 PM EDT (22:41 UTC)
Expired: Aug 15, 1996, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 79 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cayuga County, NY, Oswego County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where
Aug 15, 7:15 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Victory, NY
Aug 15, 7:44 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Auburn, NY
Aug 15, 7:50 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Ira, NY
Aug 15, 7:55 PM EDT	Hail 1	Auburn, 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, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 191 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 152242
SVRBUF
NYC075-011-NYZ524-525-160000-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND SPECIAL MARINE WARNING UNTIL 800 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION

IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

   ...OSWEGO AND NORTHERN CAYUGA COUNTY...INCLUDING THE NEARSHORE
   WATERS OF LAKE ONTARIO FROM...

   ...SODUS BAY TO MEXICO BAY
 
DOPPLER RADAR FROM BUFFALO AND ROME NEW YORK AT 530 PM...SHOWED A LINE
OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LOCATED OVER THE EASTERN PORTION OF WAYNE
COUNTY...FROM SODUS BAY...SOUTH TO NEWARK.

MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 35 TO 40 MPH.

THESE STORMS WILL AFFECT FAIR HAVEN...CATO AND OSWEGO BETWEEN 645 AND
715 PM. THE STORMS WILL MOVE TO NEAR PULASKI AND PARISH BETWEEN 715
AND 730 PM.
 
TREES WERE DOWNED DURING THE PAST HOUR AS THE STORMS PASSED THROUGH
WAYNE COUNTY.

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.

LAMBERT

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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, 1 hour 33 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, 5:26 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, 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.