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Tornado Warning 3, NWS New York, NY

May 31, 2002Putnam County, New York

NWS New York, NY issued this tornado warning at May 31, 2002, 7:25 PM EDT for Putnam County, New York. It was in force for 35 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: May 31, 2002, 7:25 PM EDT (23:25 UTC)
Expired: May 31, 2002, 8:00 PM EDT
In force: 35 min
Issued by: NWS New York, NY
Area: Whole counties

County Putnam County, NY

The radar

The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 97 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Brookhaven, NY (KOKX), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 97 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

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The text

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

607 
WFUS51 KOKX 312325
TOROKX
NYC079-010000-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
725 PM EDT FRI MAY 31 2002

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN UPTON NY HAS ISSUED A

* TORNADO WARNING FOR...
  NORTHEASTERN PUTNAM COUNTY IN SOUTHEAST NEW YORK
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF...LAKE CARMEL...BREWSTER

* UNTIL 800 PM EDT

* AT 723 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
  TORNADO OVER PATTERSON...OR ABOUT 3 MILES NORTHEAST OF LAKE
  CARMEL...MOVING EAST AT 40 MPH.

SOME OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE CARMEL AND FARMER MILLS

THE SAFEST PLACE TO BE DURING A TORNADO IS IN A BASEMENT. GET UNDER A
WORKBENCH OR OTHER PIECE OF STURDY FURNITURE. IF NO BASEMENT IS
AVAILABLE...SEEK SHELTER ON THE LOWEST FLOOR OF THE BUILDING IN AN
INTERIOR HALLWAY OR ROOM SUCH AS A CLOSET. USE BLANKETS OR PILLOWS TO
COVER YOUR BODY AND ALWAYS STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
SUBSTANTIAL SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE
NEAREST DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

$$

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

LAT...LON 4158 7373 4140 7374 4135 7356 4157 7354

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 31, 7:15 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Orange	45 min
May 31, 7:18 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	OKX	Bronx, New York, Queens	27 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

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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.