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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 25, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 10, 2000Lewis County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 10, 2000, 12:28 PM EDT for Lewis County, New York. It was in force for 62 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, 12:28 PM EDT (16:28 UTC)
Expired: May 10, 2000, 1:30 PM EDT
In force: 62 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Lewis County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 21 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 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 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, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 264 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: 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 101630
SVRBUF
NYC049-101730-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1228 PM EDT WED MAY 10 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  LEWIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 130 PM EDT.

* AT 1210 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS 17 MILES NORTHWEST OF ROME...OR ABOUT 16
  MILES SOUTHWEST OF HIGHMARKET...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  HIGHMARKET AROUND 1250 PM EDT.
  CONSTABLEVILLE AROUND 1255 PM EDT.
  PORT LEYDEN...TURIN AROUND 105 PM EDT.
  LYONS FALLS AROUND 110 PM <EDT.
  LOWVILLE AROUND 125 PM EDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

PACE

LAT...LON 4347 7581 4335 7564 4371 7511 4392 7544

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, 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.