Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 472
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Jun 26, 2002, 2:15 PM EDT for 4 counties in Massachusetts; 9 counties in New Jersey; 10 counties in New York. It was in force for 7 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Jun 26, 2002, 2:15 PM EDT (18:15 UTC)
- Expired
- Jun 26, 2002, 9:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 7 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Berkshire County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Bergen County, NJ, Essex County, NJ, Hudson County, NJ, Hunterdon County, NJ, Morris County, NJ, Passaic County, NJ, Sussex County, NJ, Union County, NJ, Warren County, NJ, Bronx County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, New York County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rockland County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Westchester County, NY
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 101 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:14 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
15 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2:17 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Westchester | 43 min |
| Jun 26, 2:32 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bronx | 118 min |
| Jun 26, 2:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 45 min |
| Jun 26, 2:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Westchester | 48 min |
| Jun 26, 2:59 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 31 min |
| Jun 26, 3:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | PHI | Morris, Sussex, Warren | 46 min |
| Jun 26, 3:39 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess | 66 min |
| Jun 26, 3:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Putnam | 49 min |
| Jun 26, 3:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Westchester | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 4:49 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bergen | 41 min |
| Jun 26, 5:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Bronx, Westchester | 42 min |
| Jun 26, 5:38 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | OKX | Bronx | 3 hr |
| Jun 26, 5:54 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Passaic | 51 min |
| Jun 26, 6:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware, Sullivan | 49 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 6.3 hours before the alert went out and 110 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
- 686 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1109 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 34 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 53 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 67 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 26, 2:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Albany, Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Columbia and 26 more | 6 hr |
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New York, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Connecticut, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New Jersey, 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.