Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 125
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Apr 19, 2002, 12:00 PM EDT for 6 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 19, 2002, 12:00 PM EDT (16:00 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 19, 2002, 5:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 30 counties
Berkshire County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Cheshire County, NH, Sussex County, NJ, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Orange County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Westchester County, NY, Lackawanna County, PA, Luzerne County, PA, Pike County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 81 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 16:01 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.
Warnings issued inside it
8 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 19, 12:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene | 58 min |
| Apr 19, 12:30 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 60 min |
| Apr 19, 1:16 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 59 min |
| Apr 19, 1:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Rockland | 50 min |
| Apr 19, 2:07 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Westchester | 38 min |
| Apr 19, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 27 min |
| Apr 19, 3:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 46 min |
| Apr 19, 4:55 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Sussex | 35 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 4.0 hours before the alert went out and 101 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
- 215 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -284 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1169 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 32 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 96 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 84 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New York, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Massachusetts, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Pennsylvania, 2002Every severe thunderstorm watch 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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.