Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 48, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 15, 2000, 4:50 PM EDT for Jefferson County, Lewis County, Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 55 min. 3 reports came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 15, 2000, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 15, 2000, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 55 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Oswego County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 18 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:49 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 5:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Redfield, NY | |
| Jun 15, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Lowville, NY | |
| Jun 15, 5:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Watertown, NY |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 205 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
- 468 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 197 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
847 WUUS51 KBUF 152053 SVRBUF NYC045-049-075-152145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 450 PM EDT THU JUN 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN OSWEGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK. WEST CENTRAL LEWIS COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK. SOUTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK. * UNTIL 545 PM EDT. * AT 438 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR REDFIELD IN OSWEGO COUNTY. * THE THUNDERSTORM WAS MOVING TO THE NORTHEAST AT 50 MPH AND WILL BE MOVING THROUGH SOUTHERN JEFFERSON AND WESTERN LEWIS COUNTIES. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 14, 11:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 60 min |
| Jun 15, 1:00 AM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus | 2 hr |
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.