Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 20, 1996Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 20, 1996, 9:20 PM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 60 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

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The facts

Issued
Aug 20, 1996, 9:20 PM EDT (01:20 UTC)
Expired
Aug 20, 1996, 10:20 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Oswego County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 1.3 hours before the alert went out and 210 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1996-08-21Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 997 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1996-08-21The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 60 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
997 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-11 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
938 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
12 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
60 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
111 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 210121
SVRBUF
NYC075-210220-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
920 PM EDT TUE AUG 20 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1020 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

   ...OSWEGO COUNTY
 
AT 930 PM DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER
NORTH CENTRAL OSWEGO COUNTY EAST OF OSWEGO NEAR PULASKI AND PARRISH.
THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING EAST AT ABOUT 35 KNOTS.
 
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 I2NTERIOR 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.

EGR

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 20, 8:46 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFJefferson59 min
Aug 20, 8:59 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus46 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1996Every 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.