Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jun 27, 2002, 2:56 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 34 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, 2:56 PM EDT (18:56 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2002, 3:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 34 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Cattaraugus County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 76 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:57 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.9 hours before the alert went out and 74 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 271856 SVRBUF NYC009-271930- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 256 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 330 PM EDT * AT 252 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM OVER ASHFORD...OR ABOUT 12 MILES NORTH OF SALAMANCA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 30 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... FRANKLINVILLE AT 310 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. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 800 PM EDT THURSDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4223 7893 4210 7875 4227 7834 4250 7842
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, 1:02 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, 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, 2002Every 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.