Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 30, 1997, 5:42 PM EDT for Genesee County, Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 30, 1997, 5:42 PM EDT (21:42 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 30, 1997, 6:40 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Genesee County, NY, Orleans County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:43 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 5:45 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Alabama, 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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 341 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 7 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -124 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1144 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 36 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 302142 RRA SVRBUF NYC037-073-302240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 542 PM EDT MON JUN 30 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOOD WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 640 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST NEW YORK ...GENESEE COUNTY ...SOUTHERN ORLEANS COUNTY AT 535 PM A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS OVER THE TOWN OF ALABAMA IN NORTHWEST GENESEE COUNTY. IT WAS MOVING NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MILES AN HOUR. IT WILL REACH SHELBY CENTER BETWEEN 600 AND 615 PM. THIS STORM HAS A HISTORY OF PRODUCING TORRENTIAL RAINS AND GUSTY WINDS. ANOTHER STORM OVER OAKFIELD WILL MOVE INTO WEST BARRE AND BARRE CENTER BETWEEN 600 AND 615 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 nON 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 30, 5:42 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Genesee, Orleans | 58 min |
| Jun 30, 6:07 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Niagara | 63 min |
| Jun 30, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 63 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1997Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1997
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.