Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 13, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2002, 4:26 PM EDT for Steuben County, New York. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2002, 4:26 PM EDT (20:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Steuben County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
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 28, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.4 hours before the alert went out and 129 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 419 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 686 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 744 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 KBGM 282026 SVRBGM NYC101-282130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 426 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... STEUBEN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK. * UNTIL 530 PM EDT. * AT 423 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 6 MILES NORTHEAST OF COHOCTON TO GREENWOOD...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... WOODHULL AND RHEIMS AT 435 PM EDT. THURSTON AND SAVONA AT 440 PM EDT. SONORA AND CAMPBELL AT 445 PM EDT. MEADS CREEK AND GANG MILLS AT 450 PM EDT. SOUTH CORNING AND PAINTED POST AT 455 PM EDT. CATON AT 500 PM EDT. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BINGHAMTON. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR CENTRAL NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4265 7746 4205 7774 4204 7699 4231 7705
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 4:33 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Seneca, Yates | 57 min |
| Apr 28, 4:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Chemung, Schuyler | 65 min |
| Apr 28, 5:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Tioga, Tompkins | 60 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.