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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 93, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 26, 1998Monroe County, Wayne County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 1998, 3:50 AM EDT for Monroe County, Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 65 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 26, 1998, 3:50 AM EDT (07:50 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 1998, 4:55 AM EDT
In force: 65 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Monroe County, NY, 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
Jun 26, 1:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 7.8 hours before the alert went out and 115 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: 1359 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -61 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1460 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 68 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 128 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.3
Supercell composite: 5.0

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The text

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

645 
WUUS1 KBUF 260751 RRA
SVRBUF
NYC055-117-NYZ523>525-260855-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
350 AM EDT FRI JUN 26 1998

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO NY HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 455 AM EDT

* AT 3:50 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM BROCKPORT THROUGH WEBSTER...MOVING EAST-
  SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  MOVING THROUGH BOTH COUNTIES BETWEEN 3:50 AND 4:30 AM EDT

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

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.

RSH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 26, 1:40 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	65 min
Jun 26, 2:00 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe, Wayne	65 min
Jun 26, 2:04 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	61 min
Jun 26, 2:19 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Oswego	66 min
Jun 26, 2:54 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	61 min
Jun 26, 3:14 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Orleans	61 min
Jun 26, 3:31 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	59 min
Jun 26, 3:42 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee	63 min
Jun 26, 4:23 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Erie, Genesee	2 hr
Jun 26, 4:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wyoming	62 min
Jun 26, 5:59 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus, Chautauqua	61 min
Jun 26, 6:43 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie	87 min
Jun 26, 7:33 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Wyoming	92 min
Jun 26, 8:01 AM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Genesee	94 min
Jun 26, 8:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Monroe	50 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 1998 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 1998

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.