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Tornado Warning 5, NWS Albany, NY

June 16, 2002Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Dutchess County, New York

NWS Albany, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 16, 2002, 2:47 PM EDT for Northwest Hills Planning Region, Connecticut; Dutchess County, New York. It was in force for 43 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 16, 2002, 2:47 PM EDT (18:47 UTC)
Expired: Jun 16, 2002, 3:30 PM EDT
In force: 43 min
Issued by: NWS Albany, NY
Area: Whole counties

Counties Northwest Hills Planning Region, CT, Dutchess County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 99 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:48 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 16, 3:00 PM EDT	Tornado F1	Pawling, 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, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 102 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL: 546 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 44 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 37 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 46 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WFUS51 KALY 161847
TORALY
CTC005-NYC027-161930-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
246 PM EDT SUN JUN 16 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN ALBANY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  LITCHFIELD COUNTY IN NORTHERN CONNECTICUT
  SOUTHEASTERN DUTCHESS COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK

* UNTIL 330 PM EDT

* AT 237 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF PAWLING...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 70 MPH.

* THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR...
  PAWLING AND HOLMES AT 250 PM EDT
  BANTAM AND CORNWALL BRIDGE AT 255 PM EDT
  LITCHFIELD AND THOMASTON AT 300 PM EDT
  TORRINGTON AND TERRYVILLE AT 305 PM EDT
  NEW HARTFORD AND WINSTED AT 310 PM EDT

IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS TORNADO...TAKE COVER IMMMEDIATELY.
SEEK SHELTER IN A BASEMENT OR INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF
THE BUIDLING. EVACUATE MOBILE HOMES AND GET INSIDE A SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER.

$$

The office that day

Everything else NWS Albany, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 16, 3:31 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	ALY	Northwest Hills Planning Region	29 min
Jun 16, 1:12 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Albany, Greene	48 min
Jun 16, 1:24 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia, Rensselaer	51 min
Jun 16, 2:05 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Dutchess	40 min
Jun 16, 2:29 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ALY	Columbia	46 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.