Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 568
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 2, 2002, 1:25 PM EDT for 6 states. It was in force for 6 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 2, 2002, 1:25 PM EDT (17:25 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 2, 2002, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 6 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 45 counties
Berkshire County, MA, Essex County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Middlesex County, MA, Norfolk County, MA, Suffolk County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Cheshire County, NH, Hillsborough County, NH, Rockingham County, NH, Albany County, NY, Broome County, NY, Chemung County, NY, Chenango County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Cortland County, NY, Delaware County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Madison County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Onondaga County, NY, Otsego County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Schuyler County, NY, Steuben County, NY, Sullivan County, NY, Tioga County, NY, Tompkins County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Bradford County, PA, Potter County, PA, Susquehanna County, PA, Tioga County, PA, Wayne County, PA, Wyoming County, PA, Providence County, RI, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Binghamton radar (KBGM), 85 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:28 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
12 tornado, severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings for its counties while it was in force.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 1:41 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Columbia | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 1:44 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Delaware, Otsego | 31 min |
| Aug 2, 2:09 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Montgomery, Schenectady | 66 min |
| Aug 2, 2:22 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 53 min |
| Aug 2, 2:51 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Dutchess, Ulster | 54 min |
| Aug 2, 3:48 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Ulster | 57 min |
| Aug 2, 4:02 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Susquehanna, Wayne | 28 min |
| Aug 2, 4:11 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Sullivan | 34 min |
| Aug 2, 4:25 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Herkimer, Montgomery | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 5:29 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene | 61 min |
| Aug 2, 5:36 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Lackawanna, Wayne | 24 min |
| Aug 2, 6:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | BGM | Otsego | 33 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.4 hours before the alert went out and 108 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
- 42 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -326 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1218 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 18 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 114 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
SPC that day
Everything else SPC issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 4 hr |
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.