Alert archive / New York / Tornado Warnings in 2002
Tornado Warning 5, NWS Buffalo, NY
NWS Buffalo, NY issued this tornado warning at Jun 27, 2002, 1:04 PM EDT for Cattaraugus County, New York. It was in force for 56 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
- Jun 27, 2002, 1:04 PM EDT (17:04 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 27, 2002, 2:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 56 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), 91 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:08 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 1:53 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Hinsdale, 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, 5.1 hours before the alert went out and 89 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
- 551 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -41 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 927 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 26 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 110 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 1.5
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WFUS51 KBUF 271704 TORBUF NYC009-271800- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED TORNADO WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BUFFALO NY 104 PM EDT THU JUN 27 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN BUFFALO HAS ISSUED A * TORNADO WARNING FOR... CATTARAUGUS COUNTY IN WESTERN NEW YORK * UNTIL 200 PM EDT * AT 1258 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A POSSIBLE TORNADO 7 MILES WEST OF ALLEGANY PARK...OR ABOUT 12 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SALAMANCA...MOVING EAST AT 30 MPH. * THE TORNADO IS EXPECTED TO BE NEAR... ALLEGANY PARK AT 115 PM EDT... SALAMANCA AT 125 PM EDT... ALLEGANY AT 145 PM EDT... ST. BONAVENTURE AT 150 PM EDT... OLEAN AT 155 PM EDT... IF YOU ARE CAUGHT OUTSIDE...SEEK SHELTER IN A NEARBY REINFORCED BUILDING. AS A LAST RESORT...SEEK SHELTER IN A CULVERT...DITCH OR LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS. LAT...LON 4214 7903 4197 7897 4206 7831 4233 7832 DJF
The office that day
Everything else NWS Buffalo, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 27, 12:10 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 80 min | |
| Jun 27, 12:19 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 56 min |
| Jun 27, 12:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Wyoming | 66 min |
| Jun 27, 12:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 1:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 73 min |
| Jun 27, 1:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 105 min | |
| Jun 27, 1:15 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 105 min | |
| Jun 27, 1:27 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Orleans | 63 min |
| Jun 27, 1:37 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cayuga, Oswego | 53 min |
| Jun 27, 1:40 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 2 hr | |
| Jun 27, 2:01 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Monroe | 59 min |
| Jun 27, 2:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Niagara | 56 min |
| Jun 27, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Chautauqua | 51 min |
| Jun 27, 2:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Allegany | 30 min |
| Jun 27, 2:26 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis, Oswego | 64 min |
| Jun 27, 2:38 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 112 min | |
| Jun 27, 2:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Jefferson | 65 min |
| Jun 27, 2:56 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Cattaraugus | 34 min |
| Jun 27, 3:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BUF | Lewis, Oswego | 60 min |
| Jun 27, 5:27 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | BUF | 93 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.