Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 37, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2002, 1:02 PM EDT for Allegany County, New York. It was in force for 73 min. 1 report 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 27, 2002, 1:02 PM EDT (17:02 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2002, 2:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 73 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Allegany County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:03 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 27, 1:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 51 E | Wellsville, 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, 5.0 hours before the alert went out and 88 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
- 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
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KBUF 271702 SVRBUF NYC003-271815- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 101 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ALLEGANY COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 215 PM EDT * AT 1258 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 16 MILES SOUTHEAST OF EAST AURORA TO 13 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALAMANCA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... RUSHFORD AT 150 PM EDT... HOUGHTON AT 200 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 4250 7826 4200 7827 4201 7782 4244 7773 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, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 12:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 64 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
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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; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.