Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 39, NWS Buffalo, NY
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.
- 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.
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.
| 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, 11:53 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Wyoming | 52 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, 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.