Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 15, 2000, 11:29 PM EDT for Jefferson County, New York. It was in force for 61 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 15, 2000, 11:29 PM EDT (03:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2000, 12:30 AM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Jefferson County, NY
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 40 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:29 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 16, 12:10 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Cape Vincent, 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 15, 10:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 00:00Z, 3.5 hours before the alert went out and 231 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
- 1205 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 16 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -13 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 60 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 160328 SVRBUF NYC045-160430- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1129 PM EDT TUE AUG 15 2000 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... JEFFERSON COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK. * UNTIL 1230 AM EDT. * AT 1118 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER ONTARIO PROVINCE APPROACHING THE UPPER ST LAWRENCE RIVER AND THOUSAND ISLAND REGEION. THE STORMS WERE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... CAPE VINCENT AROUND 1140 PM EDT. CLAYTON AROUND 1150 PM EDT. CHAUMONT AROUN-D MIDNIGHT EDT. DEXTER...SACKETS HARBOR AROUND 1215 AM EDT. CALCIUM...EVANS MILLS AROUND 1225 AM EDT. BLACK RIVER...DEFERIET AROUND 1230 AM EDT. THESE ARE DANGEROUS STORMS. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. SAGE
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 12:30 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis | 60 min |
| Aug 16, 12:32 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 28 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.