Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 31, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2000, 12:26 AM EDT for Genesee County, Livingston County, Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 64 min. 2 reports 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 13, 2000, 12:26 AM EDT (04:26 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 1:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Genesee County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 57 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:26 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 13, 12:30 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Byron, NY | |
| May 13, 12:30 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Batavia, 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 12, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 4.4 hours before the alert went out and 53 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
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 10:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 61 min |
| 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, 12:45 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.