Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 2, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2002, 3:53 PM EDT for Sullivan County, New York. It was in force for 37 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 31, 2002, 3:53 PM EDT (19:53 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2002, 4:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 37 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Sullivan County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 113 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:57 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 31, 4:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | White Sulphur Spgs, NY | Trees down and a fence blown over by strong thunderstorm winds. |
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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 133 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
- 59 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -161 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 835 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 138 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 141 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
686 WFUS51 KBGM 311953 TORBGM NYC105-312030- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 352 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SULLIVAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL 430 PM EDT. * AT 346 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR COCHECTON CENTER...OR 7 MILES NORTH OF CALLICOON...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE STORM WITH THE DEVELOPING TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... JEFFERSONVILLE AND ROSCOE AT 355 PM. LIVINGSTON MANOR AND WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS AT 400 PM. PARKSVILLE AT 405 PM. LIBERTY AT 410 PM. WILLOWEMOC AND LOCH SHELDRAKE AT 415 PM. NEVERSINK AT 420 PM. FOR YOUR PROTECTION FROM THE DAMAGING WINDS OF A TORNADO...GO TO A BASEMENT OR A SMALL INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF YOUR HOME OR BUSINESS. $$ LAT...LON 4195 7506 4177 7507 4171 7427 4196 7426 NICOSIA
The office that day
Everything else NWS Binghamton, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 11:54 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cayuga, Onondaga | 51 min |
| May 31, 12:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison | 44 min |
| May 31, 12:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Oneida | 36 min |
| May 31, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Cortland | 51 min |
| May 31, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Tioga | 35 min |
| May 31, 2:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome | 46 min |
| May 31, 2:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware, Otsego | 50 min |
| May 31, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 61 min |
| May 31, 3:21 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 54 min |
| May 31, 3:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Tioga | 65 min |
| May 31, 3:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Madison, Onondaga | 47 min |
| May 31, 3:37 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Broome, Tioga | 38 min |
| May 31, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Broome, Delaware, Tioga | 64 min |
| May 31, 4:28 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 62 min |
| May 31, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware | 59 min |
| May 31, 4:57 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Delaware, Sullivan | 33 min |
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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.