Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 288
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 13, 2000, 4:30 PM EDT for 22 counties in New York; 6 counties in Vermont. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2000, 4:30 PM EDT (20:30 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 10:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 28 counties
Broome County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Clinton County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Madison County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Warren County, NY, Addison County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Franklin County, VT, Grand Isle County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orleans County, VT
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:31 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.
Warnings issued inside it
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cortland | 36 min |
| May 13, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton | 31 min |
| May 13, 4:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Franklin, Grand Isle | 31 min |
| May 13, 4:46 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Cortland | 3 hr |
| May 13, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Oneida | 63 min |
| May 13, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango | 48 min |
| May 13, 4:58 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 3 hr |
| May 13, 5:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer | 44 min |
| May 13, 5:29 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Chenango | 3 hr |
| May 13, 5:35 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Tioga | 3 hr |
| May 13, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 64 min |
| May 13, 5:43 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BGM | Broome | 3 hr |
| May 13, 5:49 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Fulton, Hamilton | 26 min |
| May 13, 5:55 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery, Warren | 3 hr |
| May 13, 6:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Montgomery | 37 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 8.5 hours before the alert went out and 115 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
- 588 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 61 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -101 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
The text of this product is not in the archive. The NWS text archive before 2002 is incomplete.
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 6:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albany, Columbia, Delaware, Dutchess, Greene, Orange and 8 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New York, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Vermont, 2000Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.