Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 7, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 28, 2002, 12:36 PM EDT for Ulster County, New York. It was in force for 24 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 28, 2002, 12:36 PM EDT (16:36 UTC)
- Expired
- May 28, 2002, 1:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 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 16:40 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 28, 1:00 PM EDT | Hail 0.88 | Marbletown, 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, 4.6 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
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -114 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 899 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 36 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 24 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- -0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KALY 281636 SVRALY NYC111-281700- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 1236 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL ULSTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK * UNTIL 100 PM EDT * AT 1235 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR RIGGSVILLE...OR ABOUT 10 MILES NORTH OF ELLENVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 15 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... RIGGSVILLE AT 1240 PM EDT OLIVEBRIDGE AT 100 PM EDT THE GREATEST THREAT FROM THIS STORM IS LARGE HAIL. IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THE STORM...MOVE TO A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER NOW. $$ LAT...LON 4195 7450 4179 7449 4178 7408 4196 7409
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 27, 8:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 28 min |
| May 28, 1:37 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Ulster | 3 hr |
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.