Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 291
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 13, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 13, 2000, 6:00 PM EDT (22:00 UTC)
- Expired
- May 13, 2000, 11:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 37 counties
Berkshire County, MA, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Mercer County, NJ, Middlesex County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Somerset County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Greene County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Richmond County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Berks County, PA, Bucks County, PA, Carbon County, PA, Lackawanna County, PA, Lehigh County, PA, Monroe County, PA, Montgomery County, PA, Northampton County, PA, Pike County, PA, Wayne County, PA
Warnings issued inside it
22 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 13, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 48 min |
| May 13, 6:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Lehigh, Northampton | 46 min |
| May 13, 6:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Bucks, Lehigh, Montgomery | 64 min |
| May 13, 7:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Carbon | 43 min |
| May 13, 7:12 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery | 33 min |
| May 13, 7:23 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Berks, Lehigh | 52 min |
| May 13, 7:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Monroe, Northampton | 41 min |
| May 13, 7:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Chester, Montgomery | 43 min |
| May 13, 7:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Warren | 37 min |
| May 13, 7:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks | 31 min |
| May 13, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex, Warren | 52 min |
| May 13, 8:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Hunterdon | 52 min |
| May 13, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Somerset | 41 min |
| May 13, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Mercer | 41 min |
| May 13, 8:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Bucks, Montgomery, Philadelphia | 41 min |
| May 13, 8:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Union | 46 min |
| May 13, 8:33 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Sussex | 42 min |
| May 13, 8:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Middlesex, Monmouth | 36 min |
| May 13, 8:39 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | PHI | Morris | 36 min |
| May 13, 9:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Burlington, Mercer, Middlesex, Monmouth | 36 min |
| May 13, 9:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Passaic | 46 min |
| May 13, 9:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Hudson | 24 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 182 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
- 568 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 37 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 118 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 2.3
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 13, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Camden, Gloucester, Salem | 5 hr |
| May 12, 11:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua, Chemung and 22 more | 7 hr |
| May 13, 4:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Clinton, Cortland, Delaware and 16 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 5:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bedford, Blair, Bradford, Centre, Clinton and 23 more | 5 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New York, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Jersey, 2000Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 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.