Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 18, 1997Allegany County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 18, 1997, 8:10 PM EDT for Allegany 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

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Jul 18, 1997, 8:10 PM EDT (00:10 UTC)
Expired
Jul 18, 1997, 9:10 PM EDT
In force
60 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Allegany County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:10 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.2 hours before the alert went out and 93 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 1997-07-19Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 380 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 1997-07-19The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -23 square meters per square second.1939587897117Sfc1 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
380 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-63 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1164 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-23 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
45 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 190009
SVRBUF
NYC003-190110-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
810 PM EDT FRI JUL 18 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 910 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WEST NEW YORK

   ...ALLEGANY COUNTY
 
AT 805 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM JUST EAST OF FRANKLINVILLEP MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH.
THIS STORM WILL EFFECT RUSHFORD LAKE AND WILL REACH FRIENDSHIP
BY 830 AND BOLIVER BY 845 PM.  THE STORM PRODUCED 1 INCH HAIL
AT FRANKLINVILLE AT 8 PM.
 
TUCKER
&

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.