Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 81, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 3, 2002, 5:47 PM EDT for Oswego County, New York. It was in force for 58 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
- Sep 3, 2002, 5:47 PM EDT (21:47 UTC)
- Expired
- Sep 3, 2002, 6:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 58 min
- Issued by
- NWS Buffalo, NY
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Oswego County, NY
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 3, 12:20 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 9.8 hours before the alert went out and 188 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
- 2 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -21 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 491 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 21 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
897
WUUS51 KBUF 032147
SVRBUF
NYC075-032245-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY
547 PM EDT TUE SEP 3 2002
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A
* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
OSWEGO COUNTY IN CENTRAL NEW YORK
* UNTIL 645 PM EDT
* AT 538 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 18 MILES WEST OF REDFIELD...OR ABOUT 15 MILES
NORTHEAST OF FULTON...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH.
* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR...
REDFIELD AT 610 PM EDT
THIS EXTENDS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR OSWEGO COUNTY.
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 600 PM EDT FOR
WESTERN NEW YORK.
LAT...LON 4353 7622 4335 7621 4334 7528 4341 7562
4353 7583
DJFThe 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, 12:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Erie, Niagara | 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, 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive.