Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 50, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 22, 2002, 3:55 PM EDT for Ontario County, Wayne County, New York. It was in force for 50 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
- Jul 22, 2002, 3:55 PM EDT (19:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 22, 2002, 4:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Ontario County, NY, Wayne County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 19:58 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.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 4:10 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Palmyra, 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, 7.9 hours before the alert went out and 116 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
- 859 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -83 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1089 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 128 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 203 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
006 WUUS51 KBUF 221955 SVRBUF NYC069-117-222045- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 355 PM EDT MON JUL 22 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ONTARIO COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK WAYNE COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 445 PM EDT * AT 352 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 15 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ONTARIO TO 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PALMYRA...OR FROM 2 MILES EAST OF BRIGHTON TO 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF CANANDAIGUA...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... PALMYRA AT 410 PM EDT... ONTARIO AND MARION AT 425 PM EDT... WILLIAMSON AT 435 PM EDT... IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER AWAY FROM FLOOD-PRONE AREAS. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 55 MPH...DEADLY LIGHTNING...AND VERY HEAVY RAIN. 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 4319 7740 4288 7729 4319 7707 4337 7737
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 22, 8:52 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 38 min | |
| Jul 22, 3:08 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 52 min | |
| Jul 22, 4:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 85 min | |
| Jul 22, 4:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario | 42 min |
| Jul 22, 5:14 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 61 min | |
| Jul 22, 5:23 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 97 min | |
| Jul 22, 5:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 65 min |
| Jul 22, 5:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 45 min |
| Jul 22, 5:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 34 min |
| Jul 22, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 57 min |
| Jul 22, 6:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 26 min |
| Jul 22, 6:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis | 31 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.