Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 74, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2002, 12:04 PM EDT for Erie County, Niagara County, New York. It was in force for 26 min. 2 reports 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
- Sep 3, 2002, 12:04 PM EDT (16:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2002, 12:30 PM EDT
- In force
- 26 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
Counties Erie County, NY, Niagara County, NY
The radar
The Buffalo radar (KBUF), 2 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:03 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 12:13 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Niagara Falls, NY | |
| Sep 3, 12:15 PM EDT | Hail 0.75 | Grand Island, 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, 4.1 hours before the alert went out and 5 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
- 574 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -89 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1161 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 169 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 177 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 4.6
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 12:04 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 26 min | |
| Sep 3, 12:06 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 24 min |
| Sep 3, 12:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 62 min | |
| Sep 3, 12:58 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 62 min | |
| Sep 3, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 27 min |
| Sep 3, 2:54 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 51 min | |
| Sep 3, 3:08 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Livingston, Wyoming | 67 min |
| Sep 3, 3:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany, Cattaraugus | 64 min |
| Sep 3, 3:53 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 52 min | |
| Sep 3, 4:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Ontario | 26 min |
| Sep 3, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 64 min |
| Sep 3, 4:52 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 38 min | |
| Sep 3, 5:47 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Oswego | 58 min |
| Sep 3, 6:33 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 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.