Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 4, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 27, 2002, 6:03 PM EDT for Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 57 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
- May 27, 2002, 6:03 PM EDT (22:03 UTC)
- Expired
- May 27, 2002, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 57 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Dutchess County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:05 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 6:39 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Beacon, 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
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 10.1 hours before the alert went out and 103 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
- 1035 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 39 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 63 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KALY 272203 SVRALY NYC027-272300- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 603 PM EDT MON MAY 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DUTCHESS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK * UNTIL 700 PM EDT * AT 559 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR FISHKILL...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTH OF BEACON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WAPPINGERS FALLS AT 610 PM EDT MYERS CORNER AT 620 PM EDT RED OAKS MILL AT 625 PM EDT HOPEWELL JUNCTION AT 630 PM EDT WINGDALE AND PAWLING AT 700 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. $$ LAT...LON 4160 7410 4144 7400 4157 7343 4182 7357
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene | 59 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.