Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 65, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 9, 2000, 6:38 PM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 52 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
- Aug 9, 2000, 6:38 PM EDT (22:38 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 9, 2000, 7:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 52 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chautauqua County, NY
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:50 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Sherman, 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 9, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 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
- 270 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -76 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 706 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 115 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 123 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 092243 SVRBUF NYC013-092330- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 638 PM EDT WED AUG 9 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK. * UNTIL 730 PM EDT. * AT 633 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 4 MILES SOUTH OF SHERMAN...MOVING ^ EAST AT 60 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... BEMUS POINT AROUND 700 PM EDT. ELLINGTON AROUND 720 PM EDT. THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. MCLAUGHLIN
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 9, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 53 min |
| Aug 9, 6:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 7:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 7:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 46 min |
| Aug 9, 7:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 65 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000
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.