Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 32, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 4:50 PM EDT for Allegany County, Livingston County, New York. It was in force for 40 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2002, 4:50 PM EDT (20:50 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2002, 5:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 40 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Allegany County, NY, Livingston County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:54 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.
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 8.8 hours before the alert went out and 81 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 262050 SVRBUF NYC003-051-262130- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 450 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 LIVINGSTON COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 530 PM EDT * AT 439 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER HOUGHTON...OR ABOUT 25 MILES WEST OF DANSVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GROVELAND AT 515 PM EDT... DANSVILLE AT 525 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM EDT WEDNESDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK.
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, 3:07 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.