Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 42, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 1:20 PM EDT for Ontario County, New York. It was in force for 55 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, 1:20 PM EDT (17:20 UTC)
- Expired
- May 24, 2000, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Ontario County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 115 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:23 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 24, 1:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 5.3 hours before the alert went out and 112 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.
708
WUUS51 KBUF 241722
SVRBUF
NYC069-241815-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
120 PM EDT WED MAY 24 2000
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
ONTARIO COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK.
* UNTIL 215 PM EDT.
* AT 115 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF CANANDAIGUA
...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
BRISTOL AT 125 PM
CANANDAIGUA AROUND 135 PM EDT.
GENEVA AROUND 155 PM EDT.
THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
*** NAME ***
LAT...LON 4284 7760 4267 7753 4280 7728 4279 7703
4298 7697The 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, 12:32 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.