Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2000
Tornado Warning 1, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at May 13, 2000, 4:25 PM EDT for Herkimer County, New York. It was in force for 35 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2000, 4:25 PM EDT (20:25 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 35 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Herkimer County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:26 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
168 WFUS51 KALY 132026 TORALB NYC043-132100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 425 PM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... HERKIMER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 500 PM EDT * AT 421 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A THUNDERSTORM WITH A POSSIBLE TORNADO 8 MILES WEST OF POLAND...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTH OF UTICA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... OVER COLD BROOK...POLAND...5 MILES NORTHWEST OF NEWPORT AT 435 PM EDT THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS. IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EDT SATURDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4327 7534 4310 7524 4326 7462 4347 7474
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 4:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 3 hr |
| May 13, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 44 min |
| May 13, 5:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton | 26 min |
| May 13, 5:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Warren | 3 hr |
| May 13, 6:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 37 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.