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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 44, NWS Buffalo, NY

May 24, 2000Jefferson County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 24, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT for Jefferson County, New York. It was in force for 75 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 24, 2000, 5:00 PM EDT (21:00 UTC)
Expired
May 24, 2000, 6:15 PM EDT
In force
75 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Jefferson County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 231 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, Albany, 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°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-05-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 188 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 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
516 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
37 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
188 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
190 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.

396 
WUUS51 KBUF 242102
SVRBUF
NYC045-242215-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 615 PM EDT.

* AT 448 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WITH DAMAGING WINDS ALONG A LINE EXTENDING FROM
  38 MILES NORTHWEST OF FORT DRUM TO 43 MILES NORTHWEST OF
  WATERTOWN MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 15 MPH.

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  ALEXANDRIA BAY...CAPE VINCENT AROUND 600 PM EDT.

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM
WINDOWS.

*** SAGE ***

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, 12:32 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFAllegany43 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

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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.