Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY

March 9, 2000Erie County, Genesee County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2000, 10:38 AM EST for Erie County, Genesee County, New York. It was in force for 52 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
Mar 9, 2000, 10:38 AM EST (15:38 UTC)
Expired
Mar 9, 2000, 11:30 AM EST
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Erie County, NY, Genesee County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 9 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:42 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 3.6 hours before the alert went out and 10 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 2000-03-09Temperature 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°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 2000-03-09The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 179 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
1942 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
47 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
179 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
223 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 091538
SVRBUF
NYC029-037-091630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1038 AM EST THU MAR 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BUFFALO...CHEEKTOWAGA...DEPEW...
  KENMORE...LACKAWANNA...LANCASTER...WEST SENECA...WILLIAMSVILLE     
  GENESEE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF BATAVIA
* UNTIL 1130 AM EST

* AT 1030 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A   
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 13 MILES WEST OF LACKAWANNA...MOVING 
NORTHEAST AT 60 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL CROSS THE BUFFALO METRO AREA BETWEEN  
  1045 AND 1115 AM AND REACH BATAVIA BY 1115 AM.

INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. 

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN BUFFALO.

LAT...LON 4286 7918 4269 7908 4292 7826 4313 7838

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 9, 11:54 AM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee, Wyoming36 min
Mar 9, 12:33 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOswego27 min
Mar 9, 12:59 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOswego31 min
Mar 9, 2:03 PM ESTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFGenesee, Livingston, Monroe42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

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.