Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1996

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 94, NWS Buffalo, NY

November 7, 1996Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Nov 7, 1996, 9:48 PM EST for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 52 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: Nov 7, 1996, 9:48 PM EST (02:48 UTC)
Expired: Nov 7, 1996, 10:40 PM EST
In force: 52 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 02:50 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
Nov 7, 10:11 PM EST	Thunderstorm Wind	Frewsburg, 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 00:00Z, 2.8 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: 1215 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 69 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 537 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 526 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 080248
SVRBUF
NYC013-080340-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
948 PM EST THU NOV 7 1996

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1040 PM EST
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
 
AT 935 PM BUFFALO RADAR DETECTED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS
EXTENDING FROM WESTFIELD SOUTH TO CLYMER. THESE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST
AT 20 TO 30 MPH AND WILL MOVE THROUGH JAMESTOWN...SINCLAIRVILLE...BEMUS
POINT AND FREDONIA BY 1035 PM. THE CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY SHERIFF REPORTED
TREES DOWN IN THE TOWNS OF NORTH HARMONY AND MINA IN WESTERN CHAUTAUQUA
COUNTY AT 925 PM.
 
BE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY STRONG DAMAGING
WINDS. LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING.

IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES GO TO A SAFE PLACE IMMEDIATELY. A
BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM IS THE SAFEST LOCATION.

PACE

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Nov 8, 2:31 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Wayne	6 hr
Nov 8, 2:31 PM EST	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Oswego	6 hr

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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.