Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 6, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 28, 2002, 2:49 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 26 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 28, 2002, 2:49 PM EDT (18:49 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 28, 2002, 3:15 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Cattaraugus County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 78 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 3:00 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 55 E | Randolph, 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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 2:00 PM EDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Buffalo Intl Airport, NY (KBUF), launched 12:00Z, 6.8 hours before the alert went out and 76 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
- 1 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 419 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 66 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 686 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 744 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
673 WUUS51 KBUF 281849 SVRBUF NYC009-281915- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 248 PM EDT SUN APR 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF SALAMANCA * UNTIL 315 PM EDT * AT 244 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES SOUTH OF GOWANDA TO 8 MILES WEST OF ALLEGANY PARK...MOVING EAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE... OVER ALLEGANY PARK...3 MILES SOUTH OF OTTO AT 305 PM EDT OVER SALAMANCA AT 310 PM EDT 3 MILES SOUTHWEST OF ASHFORD HOLLOW...6 MILES WEST OF ASHFORD AT 315 PM EDT A TORNADO WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 700 PM EDT SUNDAY EVENING FOR WESTERN NEW YORK. REPORT SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NEAREST LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY. THEY WILL RELAY YOUR REPORT TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST OFFICE IN BUFFALO.
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 28, 12:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 36 min | |
| Apr 28, 1:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 33 min | |
| Apr 28, 2:05 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 55 min | |
| Apr 28, 2:34 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus, Chautauqua | 26 min |
| Apr 28, 2:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie | 35 min |
| Apr 28, 2:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 2:43 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Erie | 32 min |
| Apr 28, 3:00 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Erie, Wyoming | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 3:12 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 48 min |
| Apr 28, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 31 min |
| Apr 28, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 30 min |
| Apr 28, 3:38 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston | 37 min |
| Apr 28, 3:48 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | BUF | Allegany | 42 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.