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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 181, NWS Buffalo, NY

September 26, 1998Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 26, 1998, 9:12 PM EDT for Wayne 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: Sep 26, 1998, 9:12 PM EDT (01:12 UTC)
Expired: Sep 26, 1998, 10:15 PM EDT
In force: 63 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Wayne County, NY

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Sep 26, 8:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 1.2 hours before the alert went out and 141 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 976 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1386 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 339 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 486 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.7
Supercell composite: 2.5

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The text

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

113 
WUUS1 KBUF 270113 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC117-NYZ524-525-270215-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
912 PM EDT SAT SEP 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WAYNE COUNTY INCLUDING ADJACENT COASTAL WATERS IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 1015 PM EDT

* AT 910 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER LAKE ONTARIO FIVE MILES NORTHWEST OF
  PULTNEYVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WILLIAMSON BY 925 PM
  SODUS BY 930 PM
  LYONS BY 945 PM

IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...SEEK SAFETY IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM
AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION.

BE ON THE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY DAMAGING
WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL
MAY ALSO PRODUCE DRAINAGE FLOODING.

ALL MARINE INTERESTS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND SMALL BOATS TAKE
SHELTER IMMEDIATELY.

LEVAN

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 26, 8:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	64 min
Sep 26, 9:07 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	63 min
Sep 26, 9:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	61 min
Sep 26, 9:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	63 min
Sep 27, 2:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee	62 min
Sep 27, 3:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	58 min
Sep 27, 4:23 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Niagara	62 min
Sep 27, 5:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Orleans	65 min

Nearby

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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.