Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 28, 1997Cattaraugus County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 1997, 8:17 AM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 63 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 28, 1997, 8:17 AM EDT (12:17 UTC)
Expired
Jul 28, 1997, 9:20 AM EDT
In force
63 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Cattaraugus County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 12:17 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 12:00Z, 0.3 hours before the alert went out and 76 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 12:00Z on 1997-07-28Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 140 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 12:00Z on 1997-07-28The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -72 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
140 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
729 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
43 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-72 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
-0.1

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 281215 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC009-281320-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
817 AM EDT MON JUL 28 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 920 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...CATTARAUGUS COUNTY
 
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WAS DETECTED BY BUFFALO DOPPLER RADAR OVER
NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY AT 815 AM. IT WAS MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT
35 MPH. THIS STORM IS LIKELY TO REACH DAYTON BY 830 AM AND OTTO BY 845
AM. IF IT HOLDS TOGETHER IT MAY REACH ELLICOTTVILLE BY 9 AM.
 
SAGE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jul 28, 7:27 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua63 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.