Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 15, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 1, 2001, 11:06 AM EDT for Monroe County, Orleans County, New York. It was in force for 39 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 1, 2001, 11:06 AM EDT (15:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 1, 2001, 11:45 AM EDT
- In force
- 39 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Monroe County, NY, Orleans County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 73 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 15:09 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 11:35 AM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Webster, NY |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 71 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 011507 SVRBUF NYC055-073-011545- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1106 AM EDT SUN JUL 1 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... NORTHERN MONROE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BRIGHTON...BROCKPORT...EAST ROCHESTER...FAIRPORT...GATES-NORTH GATES...GREECE...IRONDEQUOIT... ROCHESTER...WEBSTER SOUTHEASTERN ORLEANS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF ALBION * UNTIL 1145 AM EDT * AT 1054 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ALBION...MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... 4 MILES SOUTH OF BROCKPORT AT 1115 AM EDT OVER SPENCERPORT AT 1125 AM EDT OVER GATES-NORTH GATES AT 1130 AM EDT OVER ROCHESTER...AT 1140 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.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 1, 9:38 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 37 min |
| Jul 1, 9:49 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 41 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
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.