Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2001
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 19, 2001, 4:44 PM EDT for Livingston County, New York. It was in force for 61 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
- Aug 19, 2001, 4:44 PM EDT (20:44 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 19, 2001, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 61 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Livingston County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 82 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:45 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 5:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Mt Morris, 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, 8.7 hours before the alert went out and 79 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
- 37 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -57 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1236 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 59 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 104 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
768 WUUS51 KBUF 192045 SVRBUF NYC051-192145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 444 PM EDT SUN AUG 19 2001 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK. * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 434 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF MOUNT MORRIS...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GENESEO...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... MOUNT MORRIS AT 455 PM EDT GROVELAND AT 500 PM EDT GENESEO AT 505 PM EDT CONESUS AT 515 PM EDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH FREQUESNT LIGHTNING...DAMAGING WINDS. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE POOR DRAINAGE FLOODING. NIZIOL
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 19, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 60 min |
| Aug 19, 3:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 40 min |
| Aug 19, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 65 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.