Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 6:39 AM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 36 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 10, 2000, 6:39 AM EDT (10:39 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2000, 7:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 36 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Allegany County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 100 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:43 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 00:00Z, 10.7 hours before the alert went out and 97 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 101040
SVRBUF
NYC003-101115-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
639 AM EDT WED MAY 10 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ALLEGANY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK.
* UNTIL 715 AM EDT.
* AT 632 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 9 MILES SOUTHEAST OF OLEAN...OR
ABOUT 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOLIVAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
FRIENDSHIP AROUND 650 AM EDT.
BELMONT AROUND 655 AM EDT.
ANGELICA AROUND 700 AM EDT.
BIRDSALL AROUND 710 AM EDT.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.
LAT...LON 4203 7829 4201 7810 4236 7771 4252 7790
4214 7831The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 9, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 27 min |
| May 10, 12:34 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 56 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
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.