Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 16, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 5:57 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 48 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The outline as issued, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 4, 2002, 5:57 PM EDT (21:57 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 48 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cattaraugus County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:58 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 4, 6:05 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Little Vly, 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
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 10.0 hours before the alert went out and 73 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
- 1586 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 38 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 121 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
255 WUUS51 KBUF 042157 SVRBUF NYC009-042245- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 556 PM EDT TUE JUN 4 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 645 PM EDT * AT 553 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF SALAMANCA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... SALAMANCA AND ALLEGANY STATE PARK AT 600 PM EDT... ASHFORD AT 615 PM EDT... FRANKLINVILLE AT 625 PM EDT... REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO. LAT...LON 4226 7902 4212 7890 4222 7832 4251 7832
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston | 41 min |
| Jun 4, 7:45 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 60 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2002Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002
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.