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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 25, 1999Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 1999, 2:04 PM EDT for Allegany County, Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 66 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: Jul 25, 1999, 2:04 PM EDT (18:04 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 1999, 3:10 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Allegany County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jul 25, 2:15 PM EDT	Hail 0.88	Olean, 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.1 hours before the alert went out and 80 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: 10 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -155 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1671 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 30 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 96 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 168 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 251804
SVRBUF
NYC003-009-251910-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
204 PM EDT SUN JUL 25 1999

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WESTERN ALLEGANY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  EASTERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 310 PM EDT

* AT 155 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF OLEAN...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  OLEAN AT 215PM
  BOLIVAR AT 230 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.

TAN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Buffalo, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jul 25, 10:05 AM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 25, 10:05 AM EDT, 3 hours 59 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1005 AM EDT SUN JUL 25 1999

THE SFC LOW LOCATED OVER SOUTHERN ONTARIO...JUST NORTH OF NEW YORK
STATE...WILL DRIFT SLOWLY TO THE SOUTH AS THE UPPER LEVEL TROUGH
DEEPENS. THE COMBINATION OF THE DEEP LAYERED CYCLONIC FLOW AND THE
RELATIVELY COOL 500 MB TEMPS WILL GENERATE MORE CU AS THE AFTERNOON
WEARS ON. THE WATER VAPOR IMAGE SHOWS A WELL DEFINED SHORT WAVE JUST
EAST OF GEORGIAN BAY. THIS SHORTWAVE SEEMS TO BE MOVING QUITE A BIT
FASTER THAN WHAT THE MODELS INDICATED. THE ADDED UPLIFT THAT IS
ASSOCIATED WITH THIS FEATURE WILL SET OFF A FEW SHOWERS OR
THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE FA THIS AFTERNOON. SINCE THE LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE IS DEEPING IN THE VICINITY OF THE LOW...I WILL LEAVE IN THE
HIGHER POPS FOR THE WESTERN FINGER LAKES AND THE NORTH COUNTRY.

THE VISIBLE SATELLITE IMAGE SHOWS AN AREA OF ENHANCED CLOUDS
DEVELOPING ACROSS THE NIAGARA FRONTIER. THE MOIST SOUTHWEST FLOW OFF
OF LAKE ERIE SEEMS TO BE GENERATING SOME OF THESE CLOUDS...BUT THE
00Z RUN OF THE MM5 SUGGESTED THAT A WELL DEFINED AREA OF CONVERGENCE
WOULD SET UP ACROSS THE NIAGARA PENINSULA THIS MORNING. THE STRONGEST
CONVERGENCE IS FORECAST TO SEPT UP NORTH AND EAST OF BUFFALO...SO I
WILL INDICATE A FEW MORE CLOUDS AND SLIGHTLY HIGHER POPS FOR THAT
AREA.

.BUF...SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY NEW YORK SHORES LAKE ERIE AND ONTARIO

TJP

In the hours before

Local storm report, Jul 25, 1:59 PM EDT, 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NEW YORK
159 PM EDT SUN JUL 25 1999

TIME(EDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE  ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0130 PM    WELLSVILLE                NY   WIND DAMAGE
07/25/99   ALLEGANY                       TREES AND POWER LINES DOWN
                                          REPORTED BY SHERIFF 911
                                          DISPATCH

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 24, 8:44 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	61 min
Jul 24, 10:25 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Oswego	95 min
Jul 25, 2:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee, Orleans	63 min
Jul 25, 3:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany	65 min
Jul 25, 3:57 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	63 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.