Thunderstorm Wind, Hartford
- When
- August 28, 5:40 PM EST to 5:45 PM EST
- Where
- Hartford County, West Hartford
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- AMATEUR RADIO
- Coordinates
- 41.750, -72.733
Damaging Winds in Connecticut, August 28, 2001
Severe thunderstorms produced isolated damage in Hartford County. In West Hartford, one tree and wires were reported downed by thunderstorm winds.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS BOX wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms produced isolated damage in Hartford County. In West Hartford, one tree and wires were reported downed by thunderstorm winds. In Hartford, several large trees were uprooted and power poles were snapped. In western Tolland County, the same thunderstorms produced a wind gust to 64 mph in Bolton.
What forecasters said that day
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 Boston/Norton, MA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 28, 1:40 PM EST, 4 hours earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 28, 1:40 PM EST, 4 hours before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TAUNTON MA 240 PM EDT TUE AUG 28 2001 ...A ROUND OF CONVECTION THIS EVENING FOLLOWED BY PLEASANT WX WED AND THU... .DISC... IMPRESSIVE S/WV TROF DIGGING ESE ACRS ERN LKS ATTM ALNG WITH ASSOCIATED SFC TROF. SOLID SQUALL LINE FM BGM-CNTL PA INTO OH IN RESPONSE TO THESE FEATURES. BEST DYNAMICS/FORCING TRACK NEWD INTO CNTRL-NRN NE THIS EVENING. ALTH FORCING WL HAVE BEST RESPONSE ACRS NJ...NY AND NOSING NEWD INTO CT...RI AND SE MA (I95 CORRIDOR) WHERE BEST MSTR ADV AND INSTAB SURGE NEWD AHEAD OF TROF. AIRMASS NOT AS UNSTABLE ACRS NRN ZNS ATTM FM SFC TROF PSSG LAST NGT...WHICH WASHED OUT ACRS SE ZNS TAFTN. THUS...EXPECT SRN HALF OF SQUALL LINE TO BE MOST ACTIVE ALNG WITH BEST CHC OF SVR WX AS 50KT MLVL JET TRAVERSES FA THIS EVENING. WITH THIS IN MIND WL HV HIEST POPS I95 CORRIDOR ALNG WITH ENHANCED WORDING OF STG GUSTY WNDS AND HAIL. WL ALSO INCL HVY DOWNPOURS...ESP S AND SE ZNS AS PWS NR 1.5 ALNG WITH TD/S NR 70. MDLS IN GD AGREEMENT WITH TIMING OF FROPA...EXITING FA ARND 06Z. AS S/WV TROF EXITS FA HGHT RISES FCSTD WED...SO SUFFICIENT SUBSIDENCE AND DRIER ATM SHOULD YIELD TO A MOSTLY SUNNY DAY. CONSIDERABLY LESS HUMID WED AS TD/S DROP INTO THE UPR 40S AND LWR 50S ACRS FA. UPCOMING HOLIDAY WKND LKS GD WITH ABT 2/3 OF THE PD DRY. CHC OF RWS/TSTMS COMES LATE FRI INTO EARLY SAT AS NXT TROF APPROACHES IN NW FLO. 12Z AVN SUGGEST FROPA SAT AFTN. ALTH WITH 12Z AVN STILL INDICATING UPR TROF REMAINING TO OUR W...ALNG WITH 00Z MRF ENSEMBLES SUGGESTING WV DVLPMNT ON THE FNT OVR NE SAT...WL HOLD ONTO CLD CVR FOR MOST SAT WITH PRECIP AT LEAST THE FIRST HALF OF THE DAY. CANADIAN HI PRES BUILDS INTO RGN SUN AND SETTLES OVR NE MON AND TUE. SO FINE WX SUN AND MON WITH TEMPS IN THE 70S...PSSBL AS COOL AS THE UPR 60S HIER TRRN. .MARINE... WND AND SEAS REMAINING BLO SCA THRU THE PD. ALTH WL HV VSBY RESTRICTION FOR RWS/TSTMS THIS EVENING...THEN IMPROVING ARND MIDNGT. IN ADDITION...WL INCL HIER GUSTS (LKLY UP TO 40 KTS) IN TSTMS THIS EVENING. .BOX...NONE. NOCERA
The radar
The Brookhaven radar (KOKX), 99 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:38 UTC.
Event by event
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Tolland
- When
- August 28, 6:00 PM EST
- Where
- Tolland County, Bolton
- Measured
- 58 kt (67 mph)
- Reported by
- METEOROLOGIST(NON NWS)
- Coordinates
- 41.767, -72.433
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 28, 2001
- Hail in New Mexico, August 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Alabama, August 28, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, August 28, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 28, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 28, 2001
- Flooding and High Wind in Alaska, August 28 to 31, 2001
More
Every storm in Connecticut in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Connecticut, August 2001
Sources
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: 5264685, 5264686.