Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 7, 2001, 11:07 PM EDT for Erie County, New York. It was in force for 53 min. 1 report came from 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, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 7, 2001, 11:07 PM EDT (03:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 8, 2001, 12:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 53 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties; the outline is the Mesonet’s reconstruction
County Erie County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 24 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 03:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 11:12 PM EDT | Hail 1 | Angola, 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 00:00Z, 3.1 hours before the alert went out and 24 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 080309 SVRBUF NYC029-080400- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1107 PM EDT SAT APR 7 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...BUFFALO...CHEEKTOWAGA...DEPEW...EAST AURORA...HAMBURG * UNTIL MIDNIGHT EDT * AT 1102 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTH OF ANGOLA ON LAKE ERIE...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ATHOL SPRINGS AT 1115 PM EDT LACKAWANNA AT 1120 PM EDT WEST SENECA AT 1125 PM EDT ELMA AT 1135 PM EDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH POSSIBLE LARGE HAIL. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. LAT...LON 4281 7918 4264 7912 4257 7850 4301 7852 NIZIOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 7, 10:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 52 min |
| Apr 8, 2:07 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 53 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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.