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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 33, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 26, 2002Lewis County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 26, 2002, 5:17 PM EDT for Lewis County, New York. It was in force for 28 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 26, 2002, 5:17 PM EDT (21:17 UTC)
Expired: Jun 26, 2002, 5:45 PM EDT
In force: 28 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Lewis County, NY

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

Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 195 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: 686 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -109 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 53 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 67 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 262117
SVRBUF
NYC049-262145-

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

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

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

* UNTIL 545 PM EDT

* AT 512 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED 
  A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 12 MILES NORTHEAST OF FORT 
  DRUM TO 22 MILES SOUTHEAST OF FORT DRUM...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 45 
  MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR...
  HARRISVILLE BY 540 PM.

HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THESE
STORMS. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORMS PASS.

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 LEWIS 
COUNTY.

LAT...LON 4411 7552 4382 7537 4406 7471 4447 7505

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, 4:50 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany, Livingston	40 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2002 Every 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.