Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002

Severe Thunderstorm Warning 18, NWS New York, NY

May 31, 2002Orange County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 31, 2002, 7:15 PM EDT for Orange County, New York. It was in force for 45 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: May 31, 2002, 7:15 PM EDT (23:15 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 45 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Orange County, NY

The radar

The Albany radar (KENX), 133 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:18 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
May 31, 7:20 PM EDT	Thunderstorm Wind 54 E	Unionville, NY	As a severe thunderstorm moved rapidly east, it produced high winds that downed a large tree into the roof of a house on Orchard Street in Unionville, and a peak wind gust to 62 mph was measured by a spotter's wind system in Warwick.

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

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.3 hours before the alert went out and 135 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 5 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -130 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 663 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 45 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 60 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

696 
WUUS51 KOKX 312315
SVROKX
NYC071-010000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
715 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  SOUTHERN ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT.

* AT 713 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM NEAR UNIONVILLE...MOVING EAST AT 70 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
  FLORIDA AND GOSHEN AROUND 720 PM.
  CHESTER AND 7 MILES SOUTH OF HAMPTONBURG AROUND 725 PM.
  MONROE AND HARRIMAN AROUND 730 PM.
  WEST POINT AND 7 MILES SOUTH OF NEW WINDSOR AROUND 735 PM.

SOME OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE GREENWOOD LAKE AND PINE
ISLAND.

IF SEVERE WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA...GO INSIDE A STURDY SHELTER.
REMEMBER...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAN PRODUCE DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS
OF 55 MPH...LARGE DAMAGING HAIL...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 UPTON NY.

A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1100 PM FRIDAY
EVENING FOR NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY.

LAT...LON 4141 7465 4125 7459 4118 7429 4123 7414
          4135 7401 4148 7402

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 31, 3:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 31, 3:05 PM EDT, 4 hours 10 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
305 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002

SCTRD TRW...GUSTY WINDS AND HAIL PSBL THROUGH THIS EVE. COLD FRONT
PASSES TO THE E AFTER MIDNIGHT. HI PRES THEN BUILDS IN RESULTING IN
FAIR WX OVER THE WEEKEND.

MARINE...SCA UP FOR ROUGH SEAS S OF LONG ISL. SEAS EXPECTED TO
BUILD TO AROUND 5 FT THIS EVE.

.OKX...
CT...NONE.
NJ...NONE.
NY...NONE.
MARINE...SMALL CRAFT ADVIS FOR ROUGH SEAS...ANZ350-353-355.
NONE.

EKH

The office that day

Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Bronx, New York, Queens	27 min
May 31, 7:25 PM EDT	Tornado Warning	OKX	Putnam	35 min
May 31, 7:39 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Rockland	51 min
May 31, 7:42 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Nassau	48 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2002 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2002

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.