Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 52, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 24, 2000Genesee County, Orleans County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 24, 2000, 6:29 PM EDT for Genesee County, Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 46 min. 1 report 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 24, 2000, 6:29 PM EDT (22:29 UTC)
Expired
Jun 24, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
In force
46 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties

Counties Genesee County, NY, Orleans County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:30 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

TimeReportWhereRemark
Jun 24, 7:10 PM EDTThunderstorm WindMedina, 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 nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.5 hours before the alert went out and 47 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 2000-06-24Temperature 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-06-24The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 59 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
1537 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
32 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
59 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
85 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.

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 242231
SVRBUF
NYC037-073-242315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
629 PM EDT SAT JUN 24 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  ORLEANS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK.
  GENESEE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT.

* AT 625 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED   
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM LOCKPORT TO ALDEN MOVING       
  NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  BATAVIA AND MEDINA BY 645 PM
  BERGEN AND ALBION BY 700 PM.

THESE STORMS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRODUCING DAMAGING WIND GUSTS IN 
EXCESS OF 50 MPH.

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

NIZIOL

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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.