Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1997, 7:27 AM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 63 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
- Jul 28, 1997, 7:27 AM EDT (11:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 1997, 8:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 63 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 11:31 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 8:10 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Dunkirk, NY | An early morning thunderstorm brought high winds to the county. The thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines. In Cassadaga, a large uprooted tree crushed a pickup truck. |
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, 11.5 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.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 72 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 664 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.3
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 TTAA00 KBUF 281127 SVRBUF NYC013-NYZ520-281240- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 727 AM EDT MON JUL 28 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 830 AM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN NEW YORK ...NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY AT 715 AM RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKE ERIE MOVING EAST TOWARD DUNKIRK NEW YORK. THE STORM SHOULD REACH DUNKIRK BETWEEN 745 AND 8 AM. THE STORMS MAY CONTAIN LARGE HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY DOWNPOURS OF RAIN. TUNE IN NOAA WEATHER RADIO OR YOUR LOCAL RADIO OR TV STATION FOR THE LATEST lWEATHER INFORMATION
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 8:17 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.