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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 36, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 24, 2000Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 2:21 AM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 39 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 24, 2000, 2:21 AM EDT (06:21 UTC)
Expired: May 24, 2000, 3:00 AM EDT
In force: 39 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Chautauqua County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:23 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 nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 79 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: 75 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -7 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 758 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 27 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 91 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 100 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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The text

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

938 
WUUS51 KBUF 240624
SVRBUF
NYC013-240700-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
221 AM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 300 AM EDT.

* AT 213 AM EDT...LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS REPORTED A 
  SEVERE   THUNDERSTORM WITH 1 INCH IN BROCTON. 

* THE STORM WILL BE   NEAR CASSADAGA BY 235 AM.

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

***RSH***

LAT...LON 4244 7941 4227 7938 4222 7908 4242 7907

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 24, 11:46 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany, Cattaraugus	44 min
May 24, 11:53 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Erie, Wyoming	52 min
May 24, 12:32 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany	43 min
May 24, 12:41 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Wyoming	64 min
May 24, 1:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe, Wayne	60 min
May 24, 1:20 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Ontario	55 min
May 24, 4:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	50 min
May 24, 5:00 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	75 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2000 Every 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.