Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 69, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 23, 2002, 5:07 PM EDT for Westchester County, New York; Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, Connecticut. It was in force for 38 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
- Jul 23, 2002, 5:07 PM EDT (21:07 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 23, 2002, 5:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 38 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Greater Bridgeport Planning Region, CT, Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 64 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:10 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 5:15 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Bedford, NY | Local police reported that severe thunderstorm winds knocked several trees down. |
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 watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 12:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 7 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.1 hours before the alert went out and 64 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
- 1072 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -100 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1120 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 13 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -41 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- -19 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
072 WUUS51 KOKX 232107 SVROKX CTC001-NYC119-232145- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 507 PM EDT TUE JUL 23 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... CENTRAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT EAST CENTRAL WESTCHESTER COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK * UNTIL 545 PM EDT * AT 500 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM 8 MILES SOUTHWEST OF RIDGEFIELD...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 35 MPH. * THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR... GEORGETOWN AROUND 515 PM 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BETHEL AROUND 525 PM STEPNEY AND 5 MILES SOUTHEAST OF NEWTOWN AROUND 535 PM MONROE AROUND 540 PM 6 MILES NORTHWEST OF SHELTON AROUND 545 PM SOME OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE TRUMBULL. 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 700 PM TUESDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT AND NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK.
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 23, 3:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 39 min |
| Jul 23, 4:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange, Rockland | 34 min |
| Jul 23, 5:19 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 71 min | |
| Jul 23, 5:42 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 63 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.