Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 53, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 16, 1997Jefferson County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 1997, 6:24 PM EDT for Jefferson County, New York. It was in force for 61 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
Aug 16, 1997, 6:24 PM EDT (22:24 UTC)
Expired
Aug 16, 1997, 7:25 PM EDT
In force
61 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Jefferson County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.4 hours before the alert went out and 231 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1997-08-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1366 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 1997-08-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 25 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1366 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-17 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
48 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
25 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
9 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
1.2

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The text

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

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 162224 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC045-NYZ525-526-162325-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
624 PM EDT SAT AUG 16 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 725 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN NORTHERN NEW YORK

   ...JEFFERSON COUNTY
 
A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WAS MOVING SOUTHEAST TOWARD THE NORTHERN
PART OF THE COUNTY AS OF 620 PM. AS THE STORMS MOVED ACROSS KINGSTON
ONTARIO THEY PRODUCED WIND GUSTS CLOSE TO 60 MPH.
 
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.z..MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM ON 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.

&
SAGE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Aug 16, 2:13 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLivingston, Ontario62 min
Aug 16, 11:43 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua77 min
Aug 16, 12:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus62 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.