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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS Buffalo, NY

August 16, 2000Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 16, 2000, 12:32 AM EDT for Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 28 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 16, 2000, 12:32 AM EDT (04:32 UTC)
Expired: Aug 16, 2000, 1:00 AM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Aug 16, 12:40 AM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind	Forestville, 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

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 78 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: 724 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -78 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1141 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 33 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 101 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 141 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.2
Supercell composite: 2.4

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 160433
SVRBUF
NYC009-013-160500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1232 AM EDT WED AUG 16 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK.
  NORTHWESTERN CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK.

* UNTIL 100 AM EDT.

* AT 1226 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHWEST OF DUNKIRK...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  CATTARAUGUS...PERRYSBURG AROUND 1240 AM EDT.
  GOWANDA AROUND 1250 AM EDT.
  OTTO AROUND 1255 AM EDTM.

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

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 15, 11:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	61 min
Aug 16, 12:30 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Lewis	60 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2000 Every 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.