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Tornado Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY

September 25, 1997Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Sep 25, 1997, 6:26 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 34 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
Sep 25, 1997, 6:26 PM EDT (22:26 UTC)
Expired
Sep 25, 1997, 7:00 PM EDT
In force
34 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 22:27 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, 10.4 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 1997-09-25Temperature 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 12:00Z on 1997-09-25The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 239 square meters per square second.1939587897Sfc1 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
857 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
51 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
239 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
284 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.

000 
TTAA00 KBUF 252227 RRA
TORBUF
NYC013-NYZ520-252300-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
626 PM EDT THU SEP 25 1997

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 700 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...

IN WESTERN NEW YORK

   ...CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY
 
AT 615 PM THERE WERE SEVERAL REPORTS OF FUNNEL CLOUDS FORMING ALONG THE
LAKE ERIE SHORE OF CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY.  TORNADOES MAY TOUCH DOWN BRIEFLY
WITHIN 10 MILES OF THE SHORE AS THE FUNNELS MOVE INLAND.
 
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF A TORNADO...THE SAFEST PLACE IN A HOME OR
BUSINESS IS AN INTERIOR ROOM...SUCH AS YOUR BATHROOM...ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR POSSIBLE. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK
SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING.  AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK
SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT...AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH
YOUR HANDS.

BLACKBURN

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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.