Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 30, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 26, 2002Oswego County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 3:07 PM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 53 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, 3:07 PM EDT (19:07 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2002, 4:00 PM EDT
In force: 53 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Oswego County, NY

What was reported inside it

Time	Report	Where	Remark
Jun 26, 3:17 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 60 E	Fulton, NY
Jun 26, 3:45 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 55 E	Volney, 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 watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

Issued	Product	Office	Lasted
Jun 26, 2:45 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	6 hr

The nearest sounding before it

Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 7.1 hours before the alert went out and 207 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

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

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 261907
SVRBUF
NYC075-262000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
307 PM EDT WED JUN 26 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  OSWEGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK

* UNTIL 400 PM EDT

* AT 255 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER FULTON...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 25 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  PULASKI AT 350 PM EDT...

IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER FROM THE WEATHER IN A STRONG
BUILDING. DAMAGING WIND...LARGE HAIL...VERY HEAVY RAIN...AND DEADLY
LIGHTNING ARE ALL POSSIBLE IN SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS. STAY INSIDE AWAY
FROM WINDOWS UNTIL THE STORM HAS PASSED.

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 900 PM EDT 
WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR PARTS OF WESTERN NEW YORK...INCLUDING OSWEGO 
COUNTY.

LAT...LON 4334 7652 4321 7635 4353 7578 4370 7600

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, 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, 3:28 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.