Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2002, 12:30 PM EDT for Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 60 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
- Apr 19, 2002, 12:30 PM EDT (16:30 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2002, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 60 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Ulster County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:31 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 19, 1:20 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Saugerties, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 4.5 hours before the alert went out and 96 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
- 215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 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 KALY 191630 SVRALY NYC111-191730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1229 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ULSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK * UNTIL 130 PM EDT * AT 1226 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM SHANDAKEN TO ULSTER HEIGHTS... MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... ULSTER HEIGHTS AND SUNDOWN AT 1235 PM EDT PHOENICIA AND PEEKAMOOSE AT 1245 PM EDT RIGGSVILLE AND NAPANOCH AT 1250 PM EDT WEST SHOKAN AND ULSTERVILLE AT 1255 PM EDT KERHONKSON AT 100 PM EDT OLIVEBRIDGE AT 105 PM EDT THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM. IF YOU ARE IN ITS PATH YOU SHOULD PREPARE FOR DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...LARGE HAIL...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. PEOPLE OUTSIDE SHOULD MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER NOW. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 12:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene | 58 min |
| Apr 19, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 59 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.