Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS Buffalo, NY

March 9, 2000Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2000, 12:33 PM EST for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 27 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: Mar 9, 2000, 12:33 PM EST (17:33 UTC)
Expired: Mar 9, 2000, 1:00 PM EST
In force: 27 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Oswego County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Mar 9, 12:45 PM EST	Hail 0.75	Oswego, 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 12:00Z, 5.6 hours before the alert went out and 192 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

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 091736
SVRBUF
NYC075-091800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1233 PM EST THU MAR 9 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OSWEGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...FULTON...OSWEGO

* UNTIL 100 PM EST

* AT 1236 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES SOUTH OF OSWEGO...MOVING EAST AT 35
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL...
  MOVE ACROSS OSWEGO FULTON MINETTO AND PARISH BETWEEN 1235 AND 1 PM.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER
AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE
THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN
EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN.

REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THbEY
WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE IN BUFFALO.

LAT...LON 4345 7670 4327 7666 4332 7600 4354 7605

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, 11:54 AM EST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Genesee, Wyoming	36 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

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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.