Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 4, NWS Binghamton, NY
NWS Binghamton, NY issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2002, 4:57 PM EDT for Delaware County, Sullivan County, New York. It was in force for 33 min. 2 reports 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, 4:57 PM EDT (20:57 UTC)
- Expired
- May 31, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Binghamton, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Delaware County, NY, Sullivan County, NY
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 96 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:56 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, 5:00 PM EDT | Tornado F1 | Lordville, NY | The tornado initially touched down across the Delaware River from Lordville, traveled east, and lifted out of the river valley approximately a mile and a half downstream or east of Lordville at Bouchoux Brook. The damage path was approximately a quarter mile |
| May 31, 5:06 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Long Eddy, NY | Trees down. |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 31, 2:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.0 hours before the alert went out and 118 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.
577 WFUS51 KBGM 312057 TORBGM NYC025-105-312130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BINGHAMTON NY 456 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BINGHAMTON HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... SOUTHERN DELAWARE COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK NORTHERN SULLIVAN COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK * UNTIL 530 PM EDT. * AT 451 PM...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WITH A DEVELOPING TORNADO NEAR EQUINUNK... MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... COCHECTON CENTER AND ROSCOE AT 510 PM. HAZEL AT 515 PM. PARKSVILLE AND LIVINGSTON MANOR AT 520 PM. LIBERTY AT 525 PM. WILLOWEMOC AT 530 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 4203 7515 4178 7507 4173 7469 4195 7464 MSE
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, 3:53 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 37 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 |
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.