Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 237
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at May 18, 2017, 3:36 PM EDT for 42 counties in New York; 8 counties in Pennsylvania; 14 counties in Vermont. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- May 18, 2017, 3:36 PM EDT (19:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 18, 2017, 10:04 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
- Largest hail expected
- 1 in
- Strongest gust expected
- 55 kt
All 64 counties
Albany County, NY, Allegany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Cattaraugus County, NY, Cayuga County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Clinton County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Essex County, NY, Franklin County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Hamilton County, NY, Herkimer County, NY, Jefferson County, NY, Lewis County, NY, Livingston County, NY, Madison County, NY, Monroe County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Oneida County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Ontario County, NY, Oswego County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Seneca County, NY, St. Lawrence County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Warren County, NY, Washington County, NY, Wayne County, NY, Wyoming County, NY, Yates County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Cameron County, PA, Elk County, PA, McKean County, PA, Potter County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Warren County, PA, Addison County, VT, Bennington County, VT, Caledonia County, VT, Chittenden County, VT, Essex County, VT, Franklin County, VT, Grand Isle County, VT, Lamoille County, VT, Orange County, VT, Orleans County, VT, Rutland County, VT, Washington County, VT, Windham County, VT, Windsor County, VT
The radar
The Ft Drum radar (KTYX), 80 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:35 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 SPC expected
The probabilities SPC published with the watch, for the watch area over its life.
- Two or more tornadoes
- 5%
- One or more EF2 to EF5 tornadoes
- 2%
- Ten or more severe wind reports
- 50%
- One or more gusts of 65 knots or more
- 10%
- Ten or more severe hail reports
- 30%
- One or more hailstones of 2 inches or more
- 10%
- Six or more combined severe hail and wind reports
- 80%
Warnings issued inside it
35 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 3:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Ontario, Wyoming | 48 min |
| May 18, 4:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario | 40 min |
| May 18, 4:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca | 51 min |
| May 18, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Herkimer, Montgomery | 38 min |
| May 18, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Seneca, Yates | 51 min |
| May 18, 4:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Ontario | 51 min |
| May 18, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga | 41 min |
| May 18, 5:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga | 47 min |
| May 18, 5:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis | 47 min |
| May 18, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Caledonia, Chittenden, Lamoille, Orleans, Washington | 41 min |
| May 18, 5:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Montgomery | 38 min |
| May 18, 5:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Cortland, Madison, Onondaga | 51 min |
| May 18, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego | 64 min |
| May 18, 5:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Caledonia, Essex, Orleans | 64 min |
| May 18, 5:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 39 min |
| May 18, 5:52 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Onondaga | 38 min |
| May 18, 5:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, Tompkins | 52 min |
| May 18, 6:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Essex | 53 min |
| May 18, 6:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Schuyler, Steuben, Yates | 36 min |
| May 18, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Saratoga, Warren | 34 min |
| May 18, 6:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chenango, Madison, Oneida, Otsego | 48 min |
| May 18, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton, Herkimer | 58 min |
| May 18, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer, Montgomery, Schoharie | 43 min |
| May 18, 6:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis, Oswego | 28 min |
| May 18, 6:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CTP | Elk | 41 min |
| May 18, 6:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Clinton, Essex, Franklin | 61 min |
| May 18, 6:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Hamilton, Herkimer, Warren | 47 min |
| May 18, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Addison, Caledonia, Orange, Washington | 65 min |
| May 18, 6:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Fulton, Montgomery, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie | 47 min |
| May 18, 7:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Fulton, Saratoga, Warren, Washington | 65 min |
| May 18, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, Schoharie, Washington | 45 min |
| May 18, 7:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BTV | Rutland | 60 min |
| May 18, 8:10 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Washington | 65 min |
| May 18, 8:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Columbia, Greene, Rensselaer | 42 min |
| May 18, 9:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 15 min |
Discussions around it
SPC mesoscale discussions over the same counties from four hours before the watch to its end.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.6 hours before the alert went out and 191 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
- -209 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1826 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 193 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 165 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2:04 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albany, Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chautauqua and 35 more | 116 min |
| May 18, 5:36 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albany, Allegany, Broome, Cattaraugus, Cayuga, Chemung and 32 more | 84 min |
| May 18, 7:33 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Albany, Broome, Chemung, Chenango, Columbia, Cortland and 14 more | 87 min |
| May 18, 4:35 PM EDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Clarion, Fayette and 5 more | 85 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.