Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 11:50 AM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 55 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, 11:50 AM EDT (15:50 UTC)
- Expired
- May 10, 2000, 12:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 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 15:54 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, 12:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Wellsville, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 10, 10:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 3.8 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
- 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 101559 SVRBUF NYC003-101645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1150 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 1245 PM EDT. * AT 1142 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 20 MILES SOUTHWEST OF BOLIVAR...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BOLIVAR...RICHBURG AROUND 1205 PM EDT. WELLSVILLE AROUND 1215 PM EDT. BELMONT AROUND 1220 PM EDT. ALFRED AROUND 1230 PM EDT. ALMOND AROUND 1235 PM EDT. CANASERAGA AROUND 1245 PM EDT. THIS STORM COULD PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS...HAIL AND FREQUENT LIGHTNING. IN ADDITION...AREAS THAT HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED RAINFALL THIS MORNING COULD SEE LOCALIZED FLOODING AS THIS STORM PASSES THROUGH. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. DO NOT DRIVE ACROSS FLOODED ROADWAYS. *** NAME ***
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, 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, 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.