Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 35, NWS Buffalo, NY

June 27, 2002Wyoming County, New York

NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2002, 12:54 PM EDT for Wyoming County, New York. It was in force for 66 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 27, 2002, 12:54 PM EDT (16:54 UTC)
Expired: Jun 27, 2002, 2:00 PM EDT
In force: 66 min
Issued by: NWS Buffalo, NY
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Wyoming County, NY

The radar

The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 49 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:58 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, 4.9 hours before the alert went out and 45 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: 551 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -41 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 927 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 26 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 61 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 110 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.1
Supercell composite: 1.5

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

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

000 
WUUS51 KBUF 271654
SVRBUF
NYC121-271800-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
1254 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WYOMING COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK

* UNTIL 200 PM EDT

* AT 1248 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 7 MILES WEST OF JAVA CENTER...OR ABOUT 12 MILES
  SOUTHEAST OF EAST AURORA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
  WARSAW AT 130 PM EDT...
  PERRY AT 145 PM EDT...

HAIL...INTENSE RAIN AND STRONG DAMAGING WINDS ARE LIKELY WITH THIS
STORM. TAKE COVER IN A SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER UNTIL THE STORM PASSES.

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 4270 7844 4255 7846 4264 7799 4283 7796

DJF

The office that day

Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 27, 12:10 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		80 min
Jun 27, 12:19 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	56 min
Jun 27, 12:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	64 min
Jun 27, 1:02 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany	73 min
Jun 27, 1:04 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	56 min
Jun 27, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		105 min
Jun 27, 1:15 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		105 min
Jun 27, 1:27 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Orleans	63 min
Jun 27, 1:37 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cayuga, Oswego	53 min
Jun 27, 1:40 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		2 hr
Jun 27, 2:01 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Monroe	59 min
Jun 27, 2:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Niagara	56 min
Jun 27, 2:09 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Chautauqua	51 min
Jun 27, 2:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Allegany	30 min
Jun 27, 2:26 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis, Oswego	64 min
Jun 27, 2:38 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		112 min
Jun 27, 2:55 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Jefferson	65 min
Jun 27, 2:56 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Cattaraugus	34 min
Jun 27, 3:30 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	BUF	Lewis, Oswego	60 min
Jun 27, 5:27 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	BUF		93 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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.