Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS New York, NY

March 11, 2000Suffolk County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 11, 2000, 8:49 PM EST for Suffolk County, New York. It was in force for 31 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 11, 2000, 8:49 PM EST (01:49 UTC)
Expired
Mar 11, 2000, 9:20 PM EST
In force
31 min
Issued by
NWS New York, NY
Area
Whole counties

County Suffolk County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:52 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.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 00:00Z, 1.8 hours before the alert went out and 17 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-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2000-03-12Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Brookhaven, NY at 00:00Z on 2000-03-12The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 563 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
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
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
430 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
54 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
563 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
802 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KOKX 120150
SVRNYC
NYC103-120220-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
849 PM EST SAT MAR 11 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NEW YORK HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EASTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY IN SOUTHEASTERN NEW YORK...

* UNTIL 920 PM EST...

* AT 846 PM EST... NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR IN UPTON
  NY INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR SHIRLEY IN SUFFOLK
COUNTY. THE STORM IS MOVING EAST-NORTHEAST AT 40 MPH. THE STORM
WILL MOVE ACROSS COMMUNITIES ON THE SOUTH SHORE AND WILL THEN MOVE
INTO THE SOUTH FORK.

DAMAGING WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN ARE LIKELY. GO INSIDE A STURDY
BUILDING AND STA+Y AWAY FROM WINDOWS!

.END/EKH

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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.