Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2000, 1:59 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 56 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
- Aug 2, 2000, 1:59 PM EDT (17:59 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2000, 2:55 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:03 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 2, 2:25 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Clymer, NY | |
| Aug 2, 2:40 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Mayville, NY | |
| Aug 2, 3:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 65 E | Greenhurst, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 6.0 hours before the alert went out and 218 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
- 450 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 685 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 81 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
863 WUUS51 KBUF 021800 SVRBUF NYC013-021855- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 159 PM EDT WED AUG 2 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 255 PM EDT * AT 200 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS NEAR NORTHEAST PENNSYLVANIA...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. THE STORMS SHOULD BE NEAR THE JAMESTOWN AREA BY 230PM. IF YOU ARE IN THESE AREAS...SEEK SAFETY IN A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM AWAY FROM WINDOWS. A BASEMENT OFFERS THE BEST PROTECTION. BE ON THE ALERT FOR THUNDERSTORMS ACCOMPANIED BY DAMAGING WINDS...FREQUENT LIGHTNING AND HAIL. LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL MAY ALSO PRODUCE DRAINAGE FLOODING. PACE N
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 51 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.