Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 12, 2000, 10:44 PM EDT for Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 61 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- May 12, 2000, 10:44 PM EDT (02:44 UTC)
- Expired
- May 12, 2000, 11:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 41 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:46 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 12, 11:50 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Medina, 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 00:00Z, 2.7 hours before the alert went out and 43 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
- 1267 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -78 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 854 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 173 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 172 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.8
- Supercell composite
- 7.9
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
898 WUUS51 KBUF 130246 SVRBUF NYC063-130345- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1044 PM EDT FRI MAY 12 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NIAGARA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK. * UNTIL 1145 PM EDT. * AT 1035 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR NIAGARA-ON-THE-LAKE. MOVING EAST AT 40 MILES PER HOUR. WINDS OF 75 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED. * THE STORM WILL BE NEAR WILSON BY 11 PM AND BARKER BY 1120 PM. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MCLAUGHLIN LAT...LON 4338 7917 4325 7899 4312 7815 4347 7819
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 11:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 67 min |
| May 12, 11:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee, Monroe | 64 min |
| May 13, 12:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 64 min |
| May 13, 12:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Livingston, Wyoming | 64 min |
| May 13, 12:45 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 30 min |
| May 13, 12:52 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 38 min |
| May 13, 1:00 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario | 60 min |
| May 13, 12:25 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Monroe, Wayne | 7 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.