Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 24, 1997Erie County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 1997, 2:47 AM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 48 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
Jun 24, 1997, 2:47 AM EDT (06:47 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 1997, 3:35 AM EDT
In force
48 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 06:49 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, 6.8 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 1997-06-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 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 1997-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -9 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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
1957 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
42 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-9 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
64 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

774 
WUUS1 KBUF 240646 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC029-240735-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
247 AM EDT TUE JUN 24 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 335 AM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY
 
AT 340 AM...BUFFALO DOPPLER WEATHER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM MOVING SOUTHEAST FROM THE WATERS OF LAKE ERIE... ONSHORE
NEAR ANGOLA. THE STORM WILL BE AFFECTING THE COMMUNITIES OF ANGOLA...
EVANS...NORTH COLLINS AND EVANGOLA STATE PARK AS IT MOVES EAST AND
SOUTHEAST AT 25 MILES AN HOUR.
 
IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS...MOVE TO A PLACE OF SHELTER IF A STORM
APPROACHES.  MOTORISTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR REDUCED VISIBILITIES
DURING DOWNPOURS OF RAIN.

HIBBERT

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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.