Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 60, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 1, 2000Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 1, 2000, 6:19 PM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 56 min. 2 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: Aug 1, 2000, 6:19 PM EDT (22:19 UTC)
Expired: Aug 1, 2000, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 56 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Oswego County, NY

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 54 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:18 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
Aug 1, 6:24 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Pulaski, NY
Aug 1, 6:35 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Hastings, 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, 10.3 hours before the alert went out and 210 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 765 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -18 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 698 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 27 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 39 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 0.7

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 012220
SVRBUF
NYC075-012315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
619 PM EDT TUE AUG 1 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN OSWEGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT.

* AT 612 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 3 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FULTON...MOVING NORTHEAST
  AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SAND RIDGE AROUND 625 PM EDT.
  CENTRAL SQUARE AROUND 635 PM EDT.
  PARISH AROUND 650 PM EDT.
  ALTMAR AROUND 710 PM EDT.
  REDFIELD AROUND 715 PM EDT.

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

MAHONEY

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 31, 9:15 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	BUF	Ontario	105 min
Aug 1, 2:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	66 min
Aug 1, 3:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Livingston, Wyoming	33 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.