Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 5, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2000, 2:03 PM EST for Genesee County, Livingston County, Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 42 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
- Mar 9, 2000, 2:03 PM EST (19:03 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2000, 2:45 PM EST
- In force
- 42 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
Counties Genesee County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Monroe County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 65 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:07 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 12:45 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 62 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
- 1942 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 47 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 179 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 223 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 091904 SVRBUF NYC037-051-055-091945- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 203 PM EST THU MAR 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN GENESEE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK NORTHERN LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK SOUTH CENTRAL MONROE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 245 PM EST * AT 200 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR SHOWED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 2 MILES SOUTH OF PAVILION...OR ABOUT 12 MILES WEST OF GENESEO...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE YORK...SCOTTSVILLE...LIMA... LE ROY...CALEDONIA AND AVON HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 600 PM EST THURSDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4293 7820 4276 7811 4289 7759 4306 7762
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 10:38 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Genesee | 52 min |
| Mar 9, 11:54 AM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Wyoming | 36 min |
| Mar 9, 12:33 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 27 min |
| Mar 9, 12:59 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 31 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.