Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1997, 7:05 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 45 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 18, 1997, 7:05 PM EDT (23:05 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 18, 1997, 7:50 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Erie County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:04 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.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 1:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 11.1 hours before the alert went out and 20 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
- -94 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1353 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 39 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -2 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 132 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 182304 RRA SVRBUF NYC029-NYZ521-522-182350- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 705 PM EDT FRI JUL 18 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 750 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WEST NEW YORK ...SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM MOVING ONSHORE FROM LAKE ERIE TO STURGEON POINT WILL MOVE SOUTHEAST. IT WILL PASS NORTH OF ANGOLA AND ACROSS THE TOWN OF EVANS TO NORTH COLLINS AND EDEN BY 745 PM. LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THE STORM. WHEN THUNDERSTORMS ARE OCCURRING...YOU SHOULD MOVE INSIDE A STURDY BUILDING. DO NOT STAND BY WINDOWS...AND DON'T USE TELEPHONES OR ELECTRICAL APPLIANCES...UNLESS IT'S AN EMERGENCY...UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED. HEAVY RAINS MAY FLOOD ROADS QUICKLY. MOTORISTS SHOULD NOT DRIVE INTO LOW WATER CROSSINGS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 1:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 59 min |
| Jul 18, 2:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 80 min |
| Jul 18, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 79 min |
| Jul 18, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 60 min |
| Jul 18, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara, Orleans | 66 min |
| Jul 18, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 95 min |
| Jul 18, 5:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee | 63 min |
| Jul 18, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Wyoming | 62 min |
| Jul 18, 7:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 61 min |
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.