Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 71, NWS New York, NY
NWS New York, NY issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 2, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT for Passaic County, New Jersey; Orange County, Rockland County, New York. It was in force for 45 min. 3 reports 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
- Aug 2, 2002, 5:15 PM EDT (21:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2002, 6:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 45 min
- Issued by
- NWS New York, NY
- Area
- Whole counties
Counties Passaic County, NJ, Orange County, NY, Rockland County, NY
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 119 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:18 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | West Milford, NJ | Local police and newspapers reported numerous trees and power lines down. As a result, thousands of residents were left without power through the night. |
| Aug 2, 5:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | New City, NY | Local police reported several trees knocked over by this storm. |
| Aug 2, 5:45 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 50 E | Newburgh, NY | A spotter reported several trees and power lines downed by this storm in New Windsor. A local newspaper showed pictures of several trees up to 5 feet in diameter that were toppled by this storm. Severe winds stripped the roof off a service building at a car de |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 9.3 hours before the alert went out and 119 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
- 249 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -103 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1328 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 11 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 29 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 74 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
832 WUUS51 KOKX 022115 SVROKX NJC031-NYC071-087-022200- BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 515 PM EDT FRI AUG 2 2002 THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A * SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR... SOUTHEASTERN ORANGE COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK NORTHERN ROCKLAND COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK NORTHWESTERN PASSAIC COUNTY IN NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY * UNTIL 600 PM EDT * AT 508 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A LINE OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS FROM 7 MILES NORTH OF WEST POINT TO 8 MILES WEST OF WARWICK...MOVING SOUTHEAST AT 20 MPH. * SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE NEAR... WEST POINT AND HARRIMAN AROUND 520 PM GREENWOOD LAKE AND HEWITT AROUND 525 PM UTTERTOWN AROUND 530 PM WEST MILFORD AROUND 535 PM SLOATSBURG AND RINGWOOD AROUND 540 PM POMONA AND STONETOWN AROUND 545 PM SOME OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BLOOMINGDALE...CHESTER AND FLORIDA. 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 FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ALSO REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 900 PM FRIDAY EVENING FOR SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT AND NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY AND SOUTHEAST NEW YORK. LAT...LON 4143 7403 4123 7467 4097 7429 4118 7395
The office that day
Everything else NWS New York, NY issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 5:04 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam, Westchester | 41 min |
| Aug 2, 6:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, Westchester | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 6:57 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 63 min | |
| Aug 2, 7:05 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Nassau, Queens, Suffolk | 55 min |
| Aug 2, 7:22 PM EDT | Special Marine Warning | OKX | 53 min |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New York, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in New Jersey, 2002Every 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.