Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 2, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Mar 9, 2002, 8:27 PM EST for Livingston County, New York. It was in force for 33 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
- Mar 9, 2002, 8:27 PM EST (01:27 UTC)
- Expired
- Mar 9, 2002, 9:00 PM EST
- In force
- 33 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Livingston County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 79 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:27 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 5:15 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 30 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -26 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1467 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 266 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 488 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 100127 SVRBUF NYC051-100200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 825 PM EST SAT MAR 9 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF GENESEO * UNTIL 900 PM EST * AT 815 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF MOUNT MORRIS...OR ABOUT 14 MILES SOUTHWEST OF GENESEO...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... OVER MOUNT MORRIS AT 830 PM EST NEAR GENESEO AT 840 PM EST NEAR CONESUS AT 850 PM EST OVER HEMLOCK AT 855 PM EST WIND GUSTS OVER 60 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED WITH THE LINE OF CONVECTION ASSOCIATED WITH THIS THUNDERSTORM. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1000 PM EST SATURDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4288 7792 4258 7794 4262 7760 4290 7760
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 9, 8:01 PM EST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 29 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.