Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 9, 2000, 8:33 PM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 27 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
- May 9, 2000, 8:33 PM EDT (00:33 UTC)
- Expired
- May 9, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 27 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Allegany County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:35 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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 00:00Z, 0.6 hours before the alert went out and 93 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
- 838 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -70 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1173 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 92 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 159 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 3.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 100036 SVRBUF NYC003-100100- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 833 PM EDT TUE MAY 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ALLEGANY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK. * UNTIL 900 PM EDT. * AT 830 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER BELMONT...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WELLSVILLE ALFRED...AND ANDOVER AROUND 850 PM EDT. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS THAT COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. THEY COULD ALSO PRODUCE LOCALIZED FLOODING. NIZTIOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 12:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 56 min |
| May 10, 6:39 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 36 min |
| May 10, 7:16 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 14 min |
| May 10, 8:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario, Wayne | 30 min |
| May 10, 9:01 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga | 44 min |
| May 10, 9:23 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 67 min |
| May 10, 10:10 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis | 65 min |
| May 10, 11:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 49 min |
| May 10, 11:50 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 55 min |
| May 10, 12:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 47 min |
| May 10, 12:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario | 41 min |
| May 10, 12:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 62 min |
| May 10, 1:20 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Lewis | 3 hr |
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.