Severe Thunderstorm Warning 57, NWS New York, NY

Issued

Jun 28, 2002, 8:25 PM EDT (00:25 UTC)

Expired

Jun 28, 2002, 9:15 PM EDT

In force

50 min

Issued by

NWS New York, NY

Area

Whole counties

County Suffolk County, NY

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:27 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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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.

000 
WUUS51 KOKX 290025
SVROKX
NYC103-290115-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
824 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  EXTREME WESTERN SUFFOLK COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK

* UNTIL 915 PM EDT.

* AT 817 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES NORTHWEST OF CENTERPORT...MOVING
  SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE IN THE VICINITY OF...
  NORTHPORT AND HUNTINGTON AROUND 840 PM.
  CENTERPORT AND HUNTINGTON STATION AROUND 845 PM.
  COMMACK AROUND 855 PM.
  DIX HILLS AND 5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF SMITHTOWN AROUND 900 PM.
  DEER PARK AROUND 905 PM.
  BRENTWOOD AND HAUPPAUGE AROUND 910 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.

LAT...LON 4102 7341 4098 7356 4062 7332 4076 7306

JST

NWS New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Jun 28, 2:45 PM EDT, 5 hours 40 minutes earlier.

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
245 PM EDT FRI JUN 28 2002

SHORT RANGE DISC...WIDELY SCT SHWRS/TSTMS CONT TO DEVELOP RANDOMLY
ACROSS THE REGION. ILL CARRY A 20 PCT POP TO ACCOUNT FOR THEM UNTIL
SUNSET. ANY LIFT ASSOCIATED WITH THE UPSTREAM LOWER AND UPPER LVL
TROUGHS SHOULD BE DISPLACED EAST OF THE AREA BY SUNSET FINALLY
BRINGING AN END TO ANY CHC OF SHWRS/TSTMS.

MEDIUM RANGE DISC...AS THE UPPER LVL TROUGH CONTS EWD OFF THE NEW
ENG CST...AN UPPER LVL RIDGE WILL BUILD SLOWLY NEWD OVR THE GRT LKS.
THE LCL AREA WILL BE UNDER STG NVA AND SUBSIDENCE THROUGH
SUNDAY...PROVIDING US WITH MAINLY CLEAR SKIES.

FOR SAT...THE HIGHEST TEMPS SHOULD OCCUR NORTH AND WEST OF NYC AS
SFC WINDS BECOME NW AND DOWNSLOPE KICKS IN UNDER FULL SUNSHINE. AS
SHOWN BY THE SUNY MM5 FCST MDL...SEA BREEZE DEVELOPMENT WILL OCCUR
LATER DURG THE AFTN AND WILL BE WEAK...AS THE SYNOPTIC SCALE WIND
GRAD WEAKENS THROUGH EARLY AFTN.

FOR SUN...I WOULD EXPECT SEA BREEZES TO DEVELOP EARLIER AND BE
STRONGER WITH HIGH PRESSURE OVERHEAD.

AS FOR FCST TEMPS...ILL GO WITH THE COMPOSITE BETWEEN THE NGM MOS
AND AVN MOS FCST TEMPS THROUGH SUNDAY.

EXTENDED FCST FOR MON THRU WED...LOOK FOR A GRADUAL INC. IN BOTH
HEAT AND HUMIDITY AS A SERIES OF MAINLY WEAK IMPULSES REFLECTED BY
WEAK COLD FRONTS AT THE SFC SLIDE SEWD DOWN AN UPPER LVL RIDGE ALONG
THE EXTREME SOUTHERN BRANCH OF THE WESTERLIES. I WILL IGNORE ANY QPF
FCSTS FOR THE INITIAL WV DURING LATE SUNDAY...BUT WILL ADD A CHC OF
SHWRS/TSTMS FOR THE SECOND STRONGER WV TUE AFTN AND EARLY TUE NGT.

FOR MARINERS...ILL MAINTAIN THE SMALL CRAFT ADVISORY FOR ROUGH SEAS
ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN COASTAL WATERS ATTM. SEAS WILL BE SLOW TO
SUBSIDE BELOW 5 FT. WELL PROBABLY BE ABLE TO CANCEL THIS ADVISORY
LATER THIS EVE.

.OKX...
CT...NONE.
NJ...NONE.
NY...NONE.
MARINE...SCA FOR ROUGH SEAS ANZ350-353-355.

GC

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

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.