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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 2, 2000Erie County, Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 2, 2000, 12:35 PM EDT for Erie County, Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 40 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, 12:35 PM EDT (16:35 UTC)
Expired
Jun 2, 2000, 1:15 PM EDT
In force
40 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

Counties Erie County, NY, Wyoming County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 4.6 hours before the alert went out and 24 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 2000-06-02Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 106 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 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 12:00Z on 2000-06-02The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 242 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
106 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-152 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
1108 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
242 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
290 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 021635
SVRBUF
NYC029-121-021715-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1235 PM EDT FRI JUN 2 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  N WYOMING COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK.
  EASTERN ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 115 PM EDT.

* AT 1230 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 4 MILES WEST OF EAST AURORA...MOVING EAST AT 
  45 MILES AN HOUR.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  ELMA CENTER AROUND 1240 PM EDT.
  WALES CENTER AND MARILLA AROUND 1245 PM EDT.
  VARYSBURG AROUND 1250 PM EDT.

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

*** RSH ***

LAT...LON 4280 7878 4267 7869 4275 7802 4288 7816

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 2, 1:41 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFCattaraugus, Chautauqua49 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.