Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 3, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 19, 2002, 1:55 PM EDT for Rockland County, New York. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2002, 1:55 PM EDT (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2002, 2:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 50 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
County Rockland County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 12:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 102 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
- 19 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -368 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1055 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 25 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 102 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WUUS51 KOKX 191755 SVROKX NYC087-191845- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 154 PM EDT FRI APR 19 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... ROCKLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK * UNTIL 245 PM EDT. * AT 149 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 5 MILES NORTHWEST OF SLOATSBURG...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF... 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF POMONA AROUND 205 PM. 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 500 PM FRIDAY AFTERNOON FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4128 7417 4117 7432 4105 7395 4122 7395
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Westchester | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 5:50 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 55 min | |
| Apr 19, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Richmond | 51 min |
| Apr 19, 5:58 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Kings, New York, Queens | 47 min |
| Apr 19, 6:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau | 29 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.