Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 9:23 AM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 67 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 10, 2000, 9:23 AM EDT (13:23 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2000, 10:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 67 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Oswego County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 13:23 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 9:23 AM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Volney, NY |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 1.4 hours before the alert went out and 210 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -156 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1131 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 56 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -97 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 101325 SVRBUF NYC075-101430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 923 AM EDT WED MAY 10 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... WESTERN AND NORTHERN OSWEGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK. * UNTIL 1030 AM EDT. * AT 916 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 16 MILES WEST OF BALDWINSVILLE...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTH OF HANNIBAL...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HANNIBAL AROUND 930 AM EDT. FULTON...MINETTO AROUND 940 AM EDT. OSWEGO AROUND 945 AM EDT. MEXICO...NINE MILE POINT AROUND 955 AM EDT. PULASKI AROUND 1010 AM EDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HAIL UP TO 1 INCH IN DIAMETER HAS BEEN REPORTED IN GENEVA WITH THIS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...PUT YOUR CAR IN A GARAGE AND MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. PACE &
The 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, 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, 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.