Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Albany, NY
NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 5, 2002, 7:49 PM EDT for Rensselaer County, New York. It was in force for 56 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
- Jun 5, 2002, 7:49 PM EDT (23:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2002, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 min
- Issued by
- NWS Albany, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rensselaer County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 47 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 8:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind | Schaghticoke, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 5:15 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 26 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
- 530 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 43 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 272 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 304 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KALY 052349 TORALY NYC083-060045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY 749 PM EDT WED JUN 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... NORTHEASTERN RENSSELAER COUNTY IN EASTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 845 PM EDT * AT 746 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A TORNADO 5 MILES NORTH OF SCHAGHTICOKE...OR ABOUT 7 MILES NORTHEAST OF MECHANICVILLE...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... VALLEY FALLS AT 755 PM EDT PITTSTOWN AT 800 PM EDT HOOSICK FALLS AT 805 PM EDT BABCOCK LAKE AND GRAFTON AT 810 PM EDT PETERSBURG AT 820 PM EDT IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. $$
The office that day
Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 5, 7:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga, Washington | 41 min |
| Jun 5, 7:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery, Schoharie | 39 min |
| Jun 5, 7:40 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ALY | Saratoga, Washington | 35 min |
| Jun 5, 7:53 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schenectady | 37 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.