Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 13, 2000, 12:45 AM EDT for Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 30 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2000, 12:45 AM EDT (04:45 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 1:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 30 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Monroe County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:49 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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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, 4.8 hours before the alert went out and 90 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.
310 WUUS51 KBUF 130449 SVRBUF NYC055-130515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1245 AM EDT SAT MAY 13 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... MONROE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK. * UNTIL 115 AM EDT. * AT 1237 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ALONG A LINE EXTENDING ACROSS CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... HENRIETTA AROUND 1255 AM EDT. PITTSFORD AROUND 110 AM EDT. EAST ROCHESTER...FAIRPORT AROUND 115 AM EDT. THIS ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. *** LEVAN ***
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, 12:26 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Livingston, Wyoming | 64 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
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.