Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Buffalo, NY

July 1, 2001Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2001, 9:38 AM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 37 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: Jul 1, 2001, 9:38 AM EDT (13:38 UTC)
Expired: Jul 1, 2001, 10:15 AM EDT
In force: 37 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction

County Oswego County, NY

The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jul 1, 8:15 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 1.6 hours before the alert went out and 213 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-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

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: 1768 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -5 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 563 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 41 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 171 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 189 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 1.6
Supercell composite: 8.3

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The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 011339
SVRBUF

NYC075-011415-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
938 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2001

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 1015 AM EDT

* AT 928 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES NORTHWEST OF NINE MILE POINT...OR ABOUT
  9 MILES NORTH OF OSWEGO...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  SELKIRK BEACH AT 945 AM EDT
  PULASKI AT 950 AM EDT
  NEAR REDFIELD AT 1010 AM EDT

THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL. STAY
INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 200 PM EDT SUNDAY
AFTERNOON FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.

LAT...LON 4367 7653 4349 7654 4345 7580 4368 7579

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 1, 9:49 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	41 min
Jul 1, 11:06 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe, Orleans	39 min
Jul 1, 11:45 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Wayne	30 min
Jul 1, 12:11 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson, Oswego	49 min
Jul 1, 12:48 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis	42 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2001 Every 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.