Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY
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.
- 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
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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 11:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Wyoming | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 12:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 27 min |
| Mar 9, 12:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 31 min |
| Mar 9, 2:03 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Livingston, Monroe | 42 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.