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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 45, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 2, 2000Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 1:41 AM EDT for Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 49 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
Jun 2, 2000, 1:41 AM EDT (05:41 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2000, 2:30 AM EDT
In force
49 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 5.7 hours before the alert went out and 69 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 00:00Z on 2000-06-02Temperature 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2000-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 22 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
2784 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
64 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
22 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
265 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.

707 
WUUS51 KBUF 020542
SVRBUF
NYC009-013-020630-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
141 AM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK.   
  WESTERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 230 AM EDT.

* AT 135 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH LARGE HAIL 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF
  JAMESTOWN MOVING EAST NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CATTARAUGUS AROUND 200 AM EDT.
  LITTLE VALLEY AROUND 205 AM EDT.
  ELLICOTTVILLE...OTTO AROUND 215 AM EDT.
  

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

*** SAGE ***

LAT...LON 4233 7925 4216 7914 4232 7842 4251 7853

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 12:35 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie, Wyoming40 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.