Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 23, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 17, 2002, 2:26 PM EDT for Erie County, Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 49 min. 1 report 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
- Jun 17, 2002, 2:26 PM EDT (18:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 17, 2002, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 49 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Erie County, NY, Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:29 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 17, 3:20 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Wheatfield, 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, 6.4 hours before the alert went out and 5 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -12 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 882 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 91 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 171826 SVRBUF NYC029-063-171915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY ISSUED BY NWS BINGHAMTON NY 226 PM EDT MON JUN 17 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ERIE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK. NIAGARA COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK. * UNTIL 315 PM EDT. * AT 224 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER NORTH TONAWANDA...MOVING EAST AT 25 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... WILLIAMSVILLE AT 245 PM EDT. HARRIS HILL AT 250 PM EDT. TOWN LINE AT 305 PM EDT. AKRON AT 310 PM EDT. IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM CREEK BEDS AND OTHER FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. $$ LAT...LON 4318 7897 4301 7904 4286 7851 4309 7849 RRM
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 17, 2:51 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 114 min | |
| Jun 17, 2:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 107 min | |
| Jun 17, 3:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 39 min |
| Jun 17, 3:23 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 3 hr |
| Jun 17, 6:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 45 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.