Alert archive / New York / Severe Thunderstorm Watches in 2002
Severe Thunderstorm Watch 610
The Storm Prediction Center issued this severe thunderstorm watch at Aug 16, 2002, 1:55 PM EDT for 4 states. It was in force for 5 hr.
The area
The outline as issued.
The facts
- Issued
- Aug 16, 2002, 1:55 PM EDT (17:55 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 16, 2002, 7:00 PM EDT
- In force
- 5 hr
- Issued by
- the Storm Prediction Center
All 23 counties
Berkshire County, MA, Franklin County, MA, Hampden County, MA, Hampshire County, MA, Worcester County, MA, Cheshire County, NH, Sullivan County, NH, Albany County, NY, Columbia County, NY, Dutchess County, NY, Fulton County, NY, Greene County, NY, Montgomery County, NY, Orange County, NY, Putnam County, NY, Rensselaer County, NY, Saratoga County, NY, Schenectady County, NY, Schoharie County, NY, Ulster County, NY, Washington County, NY, Bennington County, VT, Windham County, VT
The radar
The Albany radar (KENX), 43 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 17:54 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 2:18 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | OKX | Orange | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 3:13 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Albany, Schenectady | 62 min |
| Aug 16, 3:15 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer, Washington | 45 min |
| Aug 16, 3:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga | 29 min |
| Aug 16, 3:40 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Bennington | 65 min |
| Aug 16, 4:00 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 30 min |
| Aug 16, 4:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Greene | 46 min |
| Aug 16, 4:31 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 29 min |
| Aug 16, 4:49 PM EDT | Flash Flood Warning | ALY | Rensselaer | 4 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:50 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Windham | 40 min |
| Aug 16, 4:57 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | GYX | Sullivan | 33 min |
| Aug 16, 5:14 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Berkshire | 16 min |
| Aug 16, 6:03 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Saratoga | 57 min |
| Aug 16, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ALY | Schoharie | 45 min |
The nearest sounding before it
Albany, NY (KALY), launched 12:00Z, 5.9 hours before the alert went out and 23 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
- 1212 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -65 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 976 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -1 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 61 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.1
- Supercell composite
- 0.2
Nearby
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in New York, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Connecticut, 2002Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Massachusetts, 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.