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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 24, 2000Allegany County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 12:32 PM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 43 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, 12:32 PM EDT (16:32 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 1:15 PM EDT
In force
43 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Allegany County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:30 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 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 88 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-05-24Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 44 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
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

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The text

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

390 
WUUS51 KBUF 241634
SVRBUF
NYC003-241715-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1232 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 115 PM EDT.

* AT 1224 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THAT EXTENDED FROM RUSHFORD TO THE    
  PENN STATE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ANGELICA...BELMONT AROUND 1240 PM EDT.
  WELLSVILLE BIRDSALL AROUND 1245 PM EDT.

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

NIZIOL

LAT...LON 4246 7827 4206 7827 4203 7780 4243 7778

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 24, 2:21 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFChautauqua39 min
May 24, 11:46 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany, Cattaraugus44 min
May 24, 11:53 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie, Wyoming52 min
May 24, 12:41 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFLivingston, Wyoming64 min
May 24, 1:15 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFMonroe, Wayne60 min
May 24, 1:20 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFOntario55 min
May 24, 4:40 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFNiagara50 min
May 24, 5:00 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFJefferson75 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.