Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 38, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 11:53 AM EDT for Erie County, Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 52 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 24, 2000, 11:53 AM EDT (15:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 12:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, NY, Wyoming County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 31 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:00 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 24, 12:05 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Tonawanda, NY | |
| May 24, 12:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Bliss, 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, 3.9 hours before the alert went out and 27 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
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1424 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 33 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 44 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 62 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
282 WUUS51 KBUF 241556 SVRBUF NYC029-121-241645- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1153 AM EDT WED MAY 24 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN WYOMING COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK. SOUTHERN ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK. * UNTIL 1245 PM EDT. * AT 1148 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF SPRINGVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... HOLLAND...SARDINIA AROUND NOON EDT. CHAFFEE AROUND 1205 PM EDT. JAVA CENTER AND ARCADE AROUND 1210 PM EDT. WARSAW AROUND 1235 PM EDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. THERE HAVE BEEN REPORTS OF DIME SIZED HAIL IN GOWANDA. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. NIZIOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 2:21 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 39 min |
| May 24, 11:46 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus | 44 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
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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.