Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 61, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 28, 2002, 10:11 AM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 64 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
- Jul 28, 2002, 10:11 AM EDT (14:11 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 28, 2002, 11:15 AM EDT
- In force
- 64 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), 77 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 14:11 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, 2.2 hours before the alert went out and 75 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
- 171 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -265 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1200 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 46 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 86 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 120 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
468 WUUS51 KBUF 281411 SVRBUF NYC009-281515- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 1011 AM EDT SUN JUL 28 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 1115 AM EDT * AT 1006 AM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 11 MILES SOUTH OF HAMBURG TO 20 MILES WEST OF JAMESTOWN...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 50 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... ASHFORD HOLLOW AT 1025 AM EDT... ASHFORD AT 1035 AM EDT... FRANKLINVILLE AT 1040 AM EDT... ALLEGANY PARK AND SALAMANCA AT 1045 AM EDT... HINSDALE AT 1055 AM 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 4241 7888 4209 7906 4198 7833 4240 7840 DJF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 28, 3:18 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 72 min | |
| Jul 28, 4:12 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua, Erie | 48 min |
| Jul 28, 9:18 AM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 72 min | |
| Jul 28, 9:42 AM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua, Erie | 63 min |
| Jul 28, 3:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 28 min |
| Jul 28, 4:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 57 min |
| Jul 28, 4:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 58 min |
| Jul 28, 5:43 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Wayne | 62 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.