Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 1997
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 8, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 25, 1997, 5:22 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 58 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
- Jun 25, 1997, 5:22 PM EDT (21:22 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 25, 1997, 6:20 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:21 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Newfane, NY |
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
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 9.4 hours before the alert went out and 329 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
- 804 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -31 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1080 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 24 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 119 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 107 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
627 WUUS1 KBUF 252123 RRA SVRBUF NYC063-NYZ523-252220- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 522 PM EDT WED JUN 25 1997 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 620 PM EDT FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION... IN WESTERN NEW YORK... ...NIAGARA COUNTY AND THE ADJACENT NEARSHORE WATERS OF LAKE ONTARIO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AT 519 PM EDT SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES EAST SOUTHEAST OF WILSON. MOVEMENT WAS TO THE EAST AT 25 MPH. THE CORE OF THE STORM WILL MOVE JUST SOUTH OF OLCOTT...AFFECTING NEWFANE AND GASPORT BY 6 PM. 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...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. DONT ATTEMPT TO CROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. LAMBERT
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 58 min |
| Jun 25, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 64 min |
| Jun 25, 6:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 79 min |
| Jun 25, 7:24 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 76 min |
| Jun 25, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 76 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.