Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 27, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 1:32 PM EDT for Genesee County, Monroe County, New York. It was in force for 58 min. 2 reports 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, 1:32 PM EDT (17:32 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2002, 2:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Genesee County, NY, Monroe County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 69 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:34 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, 2:11 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Rochester, NY | |
| Jun 26, 2:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 E | Irondequoit, 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, 5.5 hours before the alert went out and 67 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 261732 SVRBUF NYC037-055-261830- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 131 PM EDT WED JUN 26 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... GENESEE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK MONROE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 230 PM EDT * AT 124 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM ABOUT 5 MILES SOUTH OF BATAVIA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... LE ROY AND BYRON AT 140 PM EDT... BERGEN AT 150 PM EDT... CHURCHVILLE AT 155 PM EDT... SCOTTSVILLE AT 200 PM EDT... SPENCERPORT AT 205 PM EDT... GREECE AND HENRIETTA AT 215 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 4299 7828 4287 7814 4313 7736 4341 7746
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 1:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 24 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
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; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.