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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Buffalo, NY

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

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2000, 11:54 AM EST for Genesee County, Wyoming 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: Mar 9, 2000, 11:54 AM EST (16:54 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2000, 12:30 PM EST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Genesee County, NY, Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:58 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 36 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 091657
SVRBUF
NYC037-121-091730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1154 AM EST THU MAR 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN GENESEE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK
  NORTHERN WYOMING COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 1230 PM EST

* AT 1150 AM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A   
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 6 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BENNINGTON...MOVING
  NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL ...
  MOVE ACROSS AREAS CLOSE ATTICA PAVILION AND LE ROY BETWEEN NOON
  AND 1230 PM. 

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDET VARYSBURG

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 4285 7847 4271 7843 4288 7793 4303 7802

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 9, 10:38 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Genesee	52 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

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2000 Every 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.