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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 22, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 10, 2000Allegany County, New York

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

TimeReportWhereRemark
May 10, 12:00 PM EDTHail 0.75Wellsville, 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.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 10, 10:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC6 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.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-05-10Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-05-10The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -97 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 9, 8:33 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany27 min
May 10, 12:34 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie, Niagara56 min
May 10, 6:39 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany36 min
May 10, 7:16 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany14 min
May 10, 8:45 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOntario, Wayne30 min
May 10, 9:01 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCayuga44 min
May 10, 9:23 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOswego67 min
May 10, 10:10 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFJefferson, Lewis65 min
May 10, 11:26 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFJefferson49 min
May 10, 12:13 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFJefferson47 min
May 10, 12:19 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOntario41 min
May 10, 12:28 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLewis62 min
May 10, 1:20 PM EDTFlash Flood WarningBUFLewis3 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.