Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2000

Severe Thunderstorm Watch 457

June 15, 200029 counties in New York; Chittenden County, Franklin County, Grand Isle County, Vermont

The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 15, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT for 29 counties in New York; Chittenden County, Franklin County, Grand Isle County, Vermont. It was in force for 6 hr.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued
Jun 15, 2000, 3:30 PM EDT (19:30 UTC)
Expired
Jun 15, 2000, 9:00 PM EDT
In force
6 hr
Issued by
the Storm Prediction Center
All 32 counties

Broome County, NY, Cayuga 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, Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Madison County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, St. Lawrence County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Warren County, NY, Chittenden County, VT, Franklin County, VT, Grand Isle County, VT

The radar

The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 63 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:34 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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Warnings issued inside it

3 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 4:50 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFJefferson, Lewis, Oswego55 min
Jun 15, 4:58 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVSt. Lawrence62 min
Jun 15, 8:14 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBTVFranklin46 min

The nearest sounding before it

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 7.5 hours before the alert went out and 143 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-06-15Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCLEL10008507005003002001001 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, Albany, NY at 12:00Z on 2000-06-15The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 193 square meters per square second.193958Sfc1 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
468 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
25 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
193 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
197 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Jun 15, 12:30 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPCAllegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Livingston and 9 more6 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.