Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 19, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 5, 2002, 1:13 AM EDT for Chautauqua County, New York. It was in force for 47 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 5, 2002, 1:13 AM EDT (05:13 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 5, 2002, 2:00 AM EDT
- In force
- 47 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Chautauqua County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 90 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 05:14 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 5.2 hours before the alert went out and 91 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 050513 SVRBUF NYC013-050600- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 113 AM EDT WED JUN 5 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 200 AM EDT * AT 109 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 11 MILES WEST OF CLYMER...MOVING EAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FINDLEY LAKE AT 120 AM EDT... CLYMER AT 125 AM EDT... LAKEWOOD AT 150 AM EDT... JAMESTOWN AT 200 AM EDT... THIS IS A DANGEROUS STORM WITH DAMAGING WINDS. STAY INDOORS AWAY FROM WINDOWS. HEAVY RAIN MAY CAUSE FLOODING. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO. LEVAN
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 4, 8:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 49 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
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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.