Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 4, 2002, 8:56 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 49 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
- Jun 4, 2002, 8:56 PM EDT (00:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 4, 2002, 9:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Cattaraugus County, NY, Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 89 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:00 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 nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 0.9 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 731 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -51 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 695 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 62 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 308 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 1.5
- Supercell composite
- 6.6
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 050056 SVRBUF NYC009-013-050145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 855 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 CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 945 PM EDT * AT 845 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES EAST OF CHAUTAUQUA INSTITUTE...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTHWEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING EAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FREWSBURG AT 900 PM EDT... ALLEGANY STATE PARK AT 920 PM EDT... SALAMANCA AT 925 PM EDT... ASHFORD AT 930 PM EDT... ST. BONAVENTURE AT 940 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 4228 7952 4203 7951 4203 7847 4233 7846
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 4, 8:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 55 min | |
| Jun 4, 8:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 55 min | |
| Jun 5, 1:13 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 47 min |
| Jun 5, 1:17 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 88 min | |
| Jun 5, 3:02 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 28 min |
| Jun 5, 3:27 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 48 min | |
| Jun 5, 5:55 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 65 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.