Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 1, NWS Buffalo, NY

April 7, 2001Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2001, 10:53 PM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 52 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline the Iowa Environmental Mesonet reconstructed for it; the warning itself named whole counties.

The facts

Issued
Apr 7, 2001, 10:53 PM EDT (02:53 UTC)
Expired
Apr 7, 2001, 11:45 PM EDT
In force
52 min
Issued by
NWS Buffalo, NY
Area
Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Oswego County, NY

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 2.9 hours before the alert went out and 208 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2001-04-08Temperature 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, Buffalo Intl Airport, NY at 00:00Z on 2001-04-08The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 320 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
1066 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
65 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
320 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
490 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.1

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 080255
SVRBUF
NYC075-080345-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1053 PM EDT SAT APR 7 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  NORTHERN OSWEGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 1145 PM EDT

* AT 1038 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF NINE MILE POINT...OR ABOUT 7
  MILES NORTHWEST OF OSWEGO...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. HAIL IN EXCESS
  OF 3/4 INCH MAY ACCOMPANY THIS STORM.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SELKIRK BEACH AT 1105 PM EDT
  JUST NORTH OF PULASKI AT 1110 PM EDT
  6 MILES NORTH OF REDFIELD AT 1135 PM EDT

LAT...LON 4363 7662 4345 7658 4351 7581 4369 7585

SAGE

The office that day

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

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 7, 11:07 PM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFErie53 min
Apr 8, 2:07 AM EDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningBUFWayne53 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2001Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2001

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.