Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 26, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 1:06 PM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 24 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 26, 2002, 1:06 PM EDT (17:06 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2002, 1:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 24 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Allegany County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 98 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:10 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 26, 1:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Almond, 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 94 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
- 780 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -99 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1163 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 21 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 42 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 43 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 261706 SVRBUF NYC003-261730- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 106 PM EDT WED JUN 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ALLEGANY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 130 PM EDT * AT 100 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 9 MILES WEST OF ALFRED...OR ABOUT 9 MILES NORTH OF WELLSVILLE...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... ALFRED AT 115 PM 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. LAT...LON 4231 7810 4216 7796 4225 7775 4246 7774
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:32 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Genesee, Monroe | 58 min |
| Jun 26, 2:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wayne | 63 min |
| Jun 26, 2:35 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 85 min | |
| Jun 26, 2:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga | 27 min |
| Jun 26, 3:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 53 min |
| Jun 26, 3:28 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 92 min | |
| Jun 26, 3:31 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Oswego | 59 min |
| Jun 26, 4:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson, Lewis | 67 min |
| Jun 26, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany, Livingston | 40 min |
| Jun 26, 5:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 28 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.