1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS New York, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 28, 2:14 PM EST, 9 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 314 PM EDT TUE MAY 28 2002 NEAR TERM: MONITORING CNVCTN THAT DVLPS/MOVS INTO CWA FOR SVR PTNTL. SPC 28/1630 UTC DAY 1 OTLK HAS NWRN 1/3RD CWA IN SLGT RISK AND SWOMCD #0924 FOR SAME AREA INDICATES SIMLR THINKING TO PRVS AFD...SLO MOVG STRMS HVR RAINERS W/ PTNTL FOR SUM HAILERS (STGR STRMS). VIL DU JOUR APRS TO BE ARND 40. WL CARRY SCT SHRA/TS (40/50 POP) N OF KCDW-KTEB-KBDR-KMMK LN THRU ABT 29/0500 UTC AND 30 POP RMNG ZNS. NOTICED THAT GDNC TDS LWR THAN CRNT OBS SO WL BE MAKING THAT ADJUSTMENT IN NXT SET OF GRIDS/RDF. SHORT RANGE: ? #1 FOR OVRNGT WL BE PTNTL FOR DVLPMNT OF FG. LAST NITE...IT NVR MATERIALIZED (XCP FOR KHPN)...IN PT DUE TO MID/HI LVL CLD CVR. UNLESS WE CAN CLR OUT IN MANY AREAS...THINKING SIMLR TO LAST NITE. WL MENT PTCHY FG AND MAY ADD LCLLY DNS WHERE RA FALLS PRIOR TO PRODUCT RLS TIME. GIVEN CONTD ONSHORE FLOW (ALBEIT LGT) AND CRNT LLVL AMS...TDS SHUDNT DROP OFF A GREAT DEAL AND THUS WL GO W/ HIER FWC TDS AND MINTS FOR THE MST PT. WK CDFNT BNDRY...OR WHATS LEFT OF IT...NVR MAKES IT S OF CWA...IN PART DUE TO BEING PARALLEL TO UPR FLOW. SO...WE MAY BE DEALING W/ SCT MNLY AFTN/ENVG CNVCTN FOR A WHILE. LEFTOVER BDNRYS LKLY BEST FOCUS FOR AFTN/EVNG CNVCTN TMRW...FOR NOW...WL GO FOR 20/30 POP SLGT CHC/CHC TS TMRW AFTN/EVNG SINCE NOTHING CONCRETE TO WORK W/ ATTM...HIER POP NW AGN. LONGER RANGE: FOR WED NITE/THU...WL PAINT SIMLR PIX TO ABV. PTCHY FG AT NITE...WHAT AMTS TO WDLY SCT TS DURG AFTN/EVNG HRS. VRY LO POPS THRU LT THU NITE. FOR FRI...LOOKS LIKE MUCH BETTER PTNTL FOR ORGANIZED CNVCTN W/ UPR TROF AND DECENT CDFNT APCHG. WL GO HIER CHC POPS FOR FRI AFTN INTO FRI EVNG. SVR PTNTL MAY WELL BE HIER AS WELL...BETTER WND FIELDS. WL ADDRESS THAT IN LTR PCKGS. BYND FRI NITE...CLDS LINGER W/ UPR TROF INTO SAT...THEN QUIET TIL NXT SYSTM APCHS MON. WL INTRODUCE CHC -RA MON INTO TUE AM. RUNNING BHND...PRODUCTS GONE BY 1945 UTC. .OKX... CT...NONE. NJ...NONE. NY...NONE. MARINE...NONE. REYNOLDS
CTZ005>012-NJZ002>006-011-NYZ067>081-290215- SEVERE WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1123 AM EDT TUE MAY 28 2002 ...POTENTIAL FOR THUNDERSTORMS TO PRODUCE ISOLATED SEVERE WEATHER AND/OR FLASH FLOODING THIS AFTERNOON... SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO REDEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS THE TRI-STATE REGION. ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS ARE SUCH THAT STORMS THAT DEVELOP WILL BE FAIRLY SLOW MOVING...ONLY ABOUT 15 MPH...WHICH COULD LEAD TO LOCALIZED FLOODING IF THUNDERSTORMS MOVE ACROSS THE SAME AREA REPEATEDLY. IN ADDITION...THE STRONGEST THUNDERSTORMS COULD PRODUCE HAIL AS WELL. ANY LOCATION IN THE TRI-STATE REGION IS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THUNDERSTORM DEVELOPMENT THIS AFTERNOON. HOWEVER...IT APPEARS THAT AREAS NORTH AND WEST OF THE NEW YORK METRO AREA AND MUCH OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT MAY BE THE MOST FAVORED LOCATIONS THIS AFTERNOON. YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL MONITOR CONDITIONS CLOSELY THIS AFTERNOON. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO AND OTHER LOCAL MEDIA FOR FURTHER DETAILS OR UPDATES. OUR SKYWARN WEATHER SPOTTERS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION LATER TODAY AND REPORT ANY SEVERE WEATHER TO THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE. FOR ADDITIONAL WEATHER INFORMATION, CHECK OUR WEB SITE AT HTTP://WWW.NWS.NOAA.GOV/ER/OKX REYNOLDS / WFO UPTON NY
The Albany radar (KENX), 125 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:19 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
As a severe thunderstorm moved east, it produced high winds that downed wires in Scotchtown and tree limbs in Newburgh.
Slow moving clusters of heavy showers and thunderstorms produced widespread flash flooding of poor drainage areas and streets in New Windsor.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in New York in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in New York, May 2002
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5296820, 5296821.